Yesterday, Galleycat reported that a five hundred year old Torah had been sold at auction […]
More thoughts on likablity
It’s been a little more than a year since Claire Messud’s infamous interview with Publisher’s […]
Preview of coming attractions; Or, the book trailer
I just watched the trailer for a book I read only a few weeks ago, […]
Written off
In the most recent episode of The Readers, “Episode 95: Catching Up on Rather a […]
The bastard child of prose and poetry; Or, the one sentence paragraph
The one sentence paragraph, when overused, is a hallmark of bad writing. They may be […]
Little reading villages
For the past three years or so, I’ve been working on a project on my […]
Booknerds of the world, unite!
The most recent episode of the Books on the Nightstand podcast (#273) reported on a study […]
Hanif Kureishi has some bad news for everyone
Earlier this week, novelist Hanif Kureishi (The Buddha of Suburbia, and others) dropped a bomb […]
If you can’t say anything nice; Or, how to review a bad book
Last week, Anne Rice petitioned Amazon to end anonymous reviews because, as we all know, […]
The gateway book; Or, I have a theory
I don’t remember the first book I read. I can remember my parents reading to […]