Dan Green has an interesting post up at The Reading Experience on The Standard of Literature. Responding to a piece by Alison Walsh on Why writers still need gatekeepers, Dan argues that what is needed is not more gatekeepers but more critics: Editorial gatekeeping is at best a hopelessly subjective …
I love this image as a way to see the book in all its forms (effective marketing too).
I intended to do some wraping up of 2011 before the year actually ended but some technical difficulties prevented that from happening. So I will instead look back this week. For the first time since I have been tracking them, I read 75 books in a year – 79 actually. …
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Reading is one of the few things in my life that seems to allow me to connect and focus – to devote long chunks of time to one thing and accomplish something.
A Christmas tree made of books!
Wow, I have read exactly two of the 100 Notable Books of 2010 as determined by the New York Times. Here are …
Chocolate, coffee & a book
I posted this on my Tumblr page but since it is books related figured I would post it here as well: This …
In this episode of the Penguin’s The Literary Life Sigrid Nunez, author of Salvation City, discusses where she finds inspiration when she’s …