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A Bibliophile’s Miscellany: The Lost Art of Letter Writing
When’s the last time you put pen to paper and wrote a letter? Not an e-mail, not a quickly jotted memo, but an actual hand-written letter, with the date at the top, a more or less formal term of address (you can never go wrong ...
Literary Travels
Book Towns: A Bibliophile’s Paradise
My love affair with the kingdom of books began in 2003, when I first read Paul Collins’s delightful memoir, Sixpence House: Lost in a Town of Books, his account of his family’s attempt to make a go at life in Hay-on-Wye, the or...
Awesome Books
Great Nonfiction: A Beginner’s Guide
In a culture where we spend childhood reading The Baby-sitters Club, high school and college English classes pressing through the classic novels our teachers foist on us, and adulthood keeping current with the Gone Girls of the...
New Reads
A Book Lover’s Mixtape: A Playlist of Songs Based on Books
Summer is just around the corner and it’s a great time to update reading lists and playlists for long, lazy days at the beach or just relaxing on the balcony. In the spirit of sunshine, soft-covers, and serenades, I’...
Interviews
Author Interview with Elizabeth Graver
The End of the Point, Elizabeth Graver Review To the privileged Porters, Ashaunt Point, on Buzzards Bay in Massachusetts, is far more than just a summer home; it is the place where the family has retreated for five generation...
Book Lists
A Bibliophile’s Miscellany: Dog Books
“Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.” (Groucho Marx) Britain and America are known as dog-loving nations and, having lived in one or the other country all my life, I happily...
Bibliotherapy
What to read? (Part 4) The Literary Canon
What makes the classics so ‘classic,’ and why should modern readers still seek to experience them? Nothing to be frightened of As Arnold Bennett reflected, it is easy to feel daunted when approaching the literary canon – “The a...
Bibliotherapy
What to read? (Part 3) A Matter of Taste
What is literary taste, and how does one develop it? If the question of like / don’t like is insufficient, what other considerations come into play? My guru in this matter is little-read English novelist Arnold Bennett, whose L...
Bibliotherapy
What to read? (Part 2) Like / don’t like
According to Roland Barthes, the laziest form of literary criticism is that which focuses purely on enjoyment. In a famous passage from Roland Barthes (translated here by Richard Howard) he questions the validity of an aestheti...
Bibliotherapy
What to read? (Part 1) Why read?
For those of us whose university days are in the past, for whom books are now non-obligatory, what is the point of reading? Is it now just an escapist leisure activity, or should it be a tool for continuing one’s learning? So: ...
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