February 18, 2008
While You’re Busy Making Other Plans…
I was going to write about Tokyo Olympiad, a documentary film on the 1964 games that I saw recently on DVD, and how just when it seemed like an affecting […]
February 10, 2008
Literature comes to us in many, many forms.
Expanding upon David Hall’s post about literature and YouTube, I have a few works of literature to share from the senior honors reading list at Kenyon: Great Expectations by Charles […]
February 8, 2008
Read to Me
This post is designed (perhaps not well) to be an “idea share,” so once I am done seeing what suggestions I can pull from my brain, I hope that you […]
January 27, 2008
Book bearer
Lo and behold, Tom Stoppard already owns a version of the thing I’ve been coveting for at least a decade: a book valise, a drop-front super-satchel, a portable bookshelf (designed […]
January 25, 2008
This Is the World’s “Longest Lasting Lightbulb.”
It was first installed in 1901 and is located at the fire station in Livermore, California. According to the bulb’s website, “You can visit the bulb depending on the availability […]
January 16, 2008
A Small, Ambivalent Thing
This post is the work of Daniel Torday, a Creative Writing Lecturer at Bryn Mawr College.–TM The recent flap over Tess Gallager’s desire to publish Raymond Carver’s original draft of […]
January 14, 2008
Reading Together
Last summer, in preparation for a move, my husband and I took stock of our books. With the help of LibraryThing, we had a digital record of our library. (We […]
January 11, 2008
Endangered Species? Ursula K. Le Guin and the Fate of Reading
I grew up in the foothills of the Adirondacks, in a small working-class mill town from which, as a child, I feared I’d never leave. One such escape–though it was […]
January 1, 2008
Writers write, right? Right.
Despite my “hey, we writers don’t need resolutions!” I found myself clutching my bookstore gift card and perusing the “writing books” aisle on New Year’s Eve. There are so many […]
December 27, 2007
An Important Message from The Editors
December 23, 2007
The Strangeness of Reading
In his consideration of Maryanne Wolf’s Proust and the Squid (Harper, 2007), Caleb Crain notes, “Taking the long view, it’s not the neglect of reading that has to be explained […]
November 22, 2007
We’ve been anxious over this since the blog began.
It’s one of our favorite things to worry about, isn’t it? The expiration of The Book as we know it? Well, check out what Amazon’s advertising on its homepage: The […]