against time travel
[SPOILER ALERT, I GUESS, EVEN THOUGH I DON’T REVEAL ANY DETAILS] I just finished reading Paul McAuley’s Confluence...
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aging and literary taste
Charles McGrath writes, “Who isn’t a critic? We are born picky and judgmental, and as we get older we only become...
on difficulty
In this exchange on literary difficulty I think Leslie Jamison gives us something far more useful than Heller. Here’s...
readerly triage
In the first five pages of The Marvelous Clouds, John Durham Peters says that media are “devices of information”...
on reading books to children
The thing about making the same joke over and over and over again is that after a while it becomes pretty clear to...
rewiring the reading organ
Here’s Gary Shteyngart on Saul Bellow: The first time I tackled Ravelstein, back in 2000, this American mind was...
choose your own (reading) adventure
About e-reading: a kind of Standard Model has emerged among book-lovers. For example: One of the most imperishable...
Carr on Piper on Jacobs
Here’s Nick Carr commenting on the recent dialogue at the Infernal Machine between me and Andrew Piper: It’s...
four categories of novels
1) Those written for young people and of interest and relevance primarily, or exclusively, to young people (e.g., the...
on reading diverse books
I wasn’t going to weigh in on the #readdiversebooks thing, because, after all, I’m the read-at-whim guy so you...