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Greg Zimmerman

Greg Zimmerman blogs about contemporary literary fiction at The New Dork Review of Books and holds down a full-time gig as a trade magazine editor. Follow him on Twitter: @NewDorkReview.

SUPERCUT: Meg Wolitzer

SUPERCUT is a feature where we collect interesting snippets from the best author interviews and combine them into a single ...

5 Celebrities Who Love Books

James Franco — he of the published volume of short stories and the candidacy for a PhD in comparative lit ...

Would You Want This Bookish Chair?

Last week, a piece in The Atlantic Cities profiled 10 of the all-time best chairs for people who love books. Most ...

Is ALL THAT IS All That? : Two Rioters Discuss the New James Salter

Today marks the under-the-radar publishing event of the year: a new James Salter novel! All That Is is the 87-year-old ...

Time Reading Is Time Well Spent

I love reading, and therefore, I spend a disproportionate amount of my free time doing it. I am reader — ...

8 Writers Over 80

Philip Roth may not exactly have been in his prime when he “retired” from writing last year at the spry ...

A Gorgeous Corporate Library

You’ve surely heard about trendy tech companies with on-site daycare, gourmet chefs, workout facilities, and even a one-story slide. But ...

Studying Literature Via Heavy Metal

At a small college in Canyon, Texas — West Texas A&M University — an English professor named Martin Jacobsen is ...

Five Best Bookish Harlem Shake Videos

It’s funny because it’s stupid. And it’s kind of stupid how funny it is. The Harlem Shake doesn’t make a ...

10 Best Books I’ve Never Read

Comedy genius Jimmy Kimmel recently provided us with his list of the 11 best movies he never saw. Most of ...