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Required reading…for everybody?

Maybe it’s my I-took-a-lot-of-English-classes Stockholm syndrome talking, but I’ve always liked required reading lists. I’ve heard the criticisms leveled against ...

Banning Books = Bad. But Banishing Certain Words?

As another year—2011, for anyone who’s counting—came to an end, we got to delight in/had to suffer through another round ...

The Best Book I’ve Never Read

In the week between Christmas and New Year’s I packed up all my books and moved. Granted I only moved ...

In Defense of Skipping

Skipping is not just for prize boxers and pig-tailed girls, but for serious readers too. Over the festive break I ...

Why Books Make the Best Movies

This week’s print issue of Entertainment Weekly includes the results from a reader poll of the most anticipated movies of ...

Genrefication: A Few Thoughts on Romance, the Novel, and Literary Fiction

I was recently discussing mystery books with a friend, and each of us was throwing out names of authors who ...

An Optimist’s Take on the Book Industry

I am, by nature, an optimist. I can’t help but hope for the best, even when everything points the other ...

Museum of the Rapture: Douglas Coupland Wants Bits and Pieces of You

What is the intersection between you and not-you? Is your shirt you?  Your nail polish?  Your contact lenses?  Are your ...

The Not So Great Expectations Book Club

I have a friend, we’ll call her K, who used to work for the city newspaper. Like other newspapers, this ...

Size Does Matter :: Observations on Reading Goals

Last week, while talking about my failed attempt to achieve my 2011 reading goals, I realized something: numbers are deceiving. ...