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Cheverly :: MD :: USA
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- 5 months agoThe culture Web site PopMatters has just launched a fun enterprise, inviting various writers to write essays on the used bookstore. It's a brilliant idea, given how transformative a place it can be for young readers and writers---if you're any sort of serious reader under 25, you're probably too ...
- 5 months agoEvery so often here I've hit on the theme of how mainstream book reviewers and bloggers get along. I try not to dive too deep into this particular business---I figure it's deathly boring to the people who aren't in the middle of it, and I also figure there's more agreement than differences between ...
- 5 months agoThe act of reading, as a general rule, isn't exactly action-packed. Much of my reading is done in pretty unexciting circumstances---usually sitting at home or sitting on the train. One reading experience flows into the other, so I'd have to think a little bit before I'd recall what book I was ...
- 5 months agoSpend any amount of time looking at statistics about reading and books, and it's easy to get confused. Americans aren't reading as much as they used to---to a degree that's somewhere between disheartening and catastrophic, depending on who you ask. But more books than ever are being published. The ...
- 5 months agoYou're a writer. You've just published a book---one you're proud of, worked hard on, and are happy to see out in the world. Then some critic shows up to smash it to bits. What do you do? One thing you're told not to do is respond. Not only does it make you look unseemly in the literary world (and it'...
- 6 months agoI feel Luc Sante's pain. Over the weekend in the Wall Street Journal, the critic and blogger wrote a fun and engaging essay about the trouble he's had wrangling his book collection. Like much of Sante's writings, it's leavened with lots of perfectly observed details (such as how the trend in trade ...
- 6 months agoFor the past week Japan's Mainichi Daily News has been running an interesting series of interviews with novelist Haruki Murakami. (It may go without saying that Murakami has written some fine novels about Japanese life and the way American culture has a way of weaving its way into it. Everbody who ...
- 6 months agoWhen Google announced a few years back that it was going to undertake digitizing the contents of a number of libraries, a few complaints sprung up---the biggest one being what this meant for copyright holders. But the real issue, Robert Darnton suggests, is more cerebral than legal. In a ...
- 6 months agoIt took a while for the mainstream media to embrace blogging because so much of what it promised ran counter to what journalists are trained to do. Publish immediately? Well, that's heresy: Pieces need to run by editors and go through some sort of fact-checking process. Say whatever's on your mind? ...
- 6 months agoConfession: Though I write a blog dedicated to American fiction, I have no real expertise in the works of Gore Vidal. This is a little like saying you're an NBA expert but haven't watched so much as a YouTube video of Michael Jordan, or that you love serious movies but never caught a Jean-Luc Godard ...
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