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Good Books for Hard Times
Our recession through the narrative lens of the Great Depression Every time I read about the potential, impending second Great Depression,...
Read & DiscussPull for the Underdog
A method for socially responsible book-buying Say you decide to spend some of your discretionary income on a good, recently-published novel....
Read & DiscussBoy Trouble
The trials and tribulations of getting boys (and men) to read At a recent one-on-one conference, my son's fourth-grade teacher told me about...
Read & DiscussForeclosing on History
Should we save the imperiled homes of our greatest authors? Kate Chopin's house burned down last week. It is tempting to blame Sam Pulsifer,...
Read & DiscussOf Men, Women, Essays, and Cannibals
The gender divide in contemporary non-fiction The New Press recently published Submersion Journalism: Reporting in the Radical First Person. It...
Read & Discuss"That Would Never Really Happen" and Other Fictions
Respecting the imagination in the age of "reality" media The other day, I heard a high school English teacher talking about changes her...
Read & DiscussLiterary Criticism and Death
Finding literary criticism in bookstores takes some doing. Usually books of academic criticism are shelved in strange, rag-tag sections such...
Read & DiscussStop Teaching Catcher in the Rye
"Sure, J.D. Salinger's novel was edgy and controversial when teachers first put it on their syllabi. But that was 50 years ago."
Read & DiscussStop Teaching Handwriting
"Handwriting is a blip in the long history of writing technologies and it's time to consign to the trash heap this artificial way of making letters."
Read & DiscussCooking the Books
The Literary Ventures Fund is betting that great literature will do well if it's given a chance.
Read & DiscussAnne Trubek on the Allure of Collecting Hypermodern Literature
Anne Trubek on the allure of collecting hypermodern literature.
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