Edd McCracken lives in Scotland, dislikes book spine breakers and loves when small words harmonise to make big ideas. Follow him on Twitter: @EddMcCracken
My bookmark has been one of the few constants in life over the past 13 years. Friendships, relationships, governments, tectonic ...
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To paraphrase E.B. White, the perfect sentence is one from which nothing can be added or removed. Every word plays ...
Maybe it’s my innate optimism. It could be my faith in the inexhaustible creativity of mankind. Or maybe my brain ...
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I have a problem. I think many of you share it. It usually arises after sustained exposure to books and ...
I am going off-piste with this post. It’s about neither reading nor books, but rather the very atomic structure of ...
Last week on Book Riot, Jeff O’Neal laid out his theory about why books translate so readily into movie gold. It’s ...
Ever wondered what your shower would say to you? Dave Eggers has. The McSweeney’s founder and literary impresario’s latest work ...