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Open Thread: Authors You’ve Read Most?
Fiction or Nonfiction, Which Writers Have You Spent the Most Time With?
Mar 29
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Building: How You Can, While You Can
Parallel Visions of Our Work in Willa Cather’s Classic ‘Death Comes for the Archbishop’
Mar 27
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Building: How You Can, While You Can
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A Scrambled Story and a Puzzle to Solve
Inside Vladimir Nabokov’s Head-Scratcher Classic ‘Pale Fire’
Mar 22
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A Scrambled Story and a Puzzle to Solve
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What Monks Know about Focus
Mar 9, 2024
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How Do You Organize 3,000 Books? Touring My Personal Library
Jun 29, 2024
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How Do You Organize 3,000 Books? Touring My Personal Library
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What’s the Big Deal about ‘Middlemarch’?
Nov 20, 2024
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What’s the Big Deal about ‘Middlemarch’?
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Protesting the Decline of Reading
May 25, 2024
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Why Build a Personal Library?
Feb 8, 2023
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Bookish Diversions: Do Audiobooks Count?
Mar 2, 2024
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Bookish Diversions: Do Audiobooks Count?
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Why Read and Write While the World Burns?
What George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, and C.S. Lewis Teach Us Today
Mar 19
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Would You Take Life Advice from a Zombie?
Reviewing Anne de Marcken’s ‘It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over’
Mar 15
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Would You Take Life Advice from a Zombie?
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The Everyday Madness of Shirley Jackson
Exploring Her Classic Novels: ‘We Have Always Lived in the Castle,’ ‘The Haunting of Hill House,’ Others
Mar 13
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The Everyday Madness of Shirley Jackson
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3 Reasons Your Art Might Fail (and How to Ensure It Doesn’t)
Philosopher Agnes Callard Poses a Question; I, a Professional Editor, Venture an Answer
Mar 8
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3 Reasons Your Art Might Fail (and How to Ensure It Doesn’t)
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Open Thread: Books You ‘Shouldn’t’ Love But Do?
They’re Guilty Pleasures, Unfashionable, Offensive, Weird, Tacky, Lousy, Whatever. Still, You Can’t Help Yourself: You Love Them
Mar 5
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Open Thread: Books You ‘Shouldn’t’ Love But Do?
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Just Like Yourself, Perhaps
Hopefully Not! Reviewing Cormac McCarthy’s Gothic Classic ‘Child of God’
Mar 1
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Open Thread: Books You Feel Bad about Not Liking?
Friends, Coworkers, Society—They All Want Us to Like Certain Books, but Sometimes You Just Can’t Get into Them
Feb 27
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Open Thread: Books You Feel Bad about Not Liking?
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Forget Your Antilibrary, Try Bacon Instead
Nassim Nicholas Taleb Coined the Term. Lifestyle Bloggers Made It a Thing. But Francis Bacon Had a Better Idea
Feb 22
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Forget Your Antilibrary, Try Bacon Instead
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5 Reasons to Write in Your Books
Scandalized by Writing in Books? C.S. Lewis Did It. So Did U.S. President John Adams. So Should You
Feb 19
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