#Fiction

PUB DAY: 1Q84, by Haruki Murakami

In one respect, this pub day post is misleading. If you can read Japanese and were willing to shell out ...

SPOOKY READS: ROCK IT LIKE HITCHCOCK DID

Spooky October is drawing to its Spooky End. Which means we have to wrap up our Spooky Reads with a ...

Our Reading Lives: THE WHEEL OF TIME by Robert Jordan

Our Reading Lives features stories about the books that have shaped who we are and how we live. It is ...

Top Five AWOL Novelists: Was It Something I Said?

You know what would be kind of awesome? If cream-‘o’-the-crop novelists like Jonathan Franzen, Haruki Murakami and Jeffrey Eugenides published ...

Reading Pathways: John Steinbeck

Of Mice and Men and The Grapes of Wrath being as commonplace as they are in the respective book-bags of ...

NFOs: the tragedy that reads among us

There is an affliction that many suffer from. It hides in plain sight. Someone on your bus every morning has ...

PUB DAY: Zone One, by Colson Whitehead

Though Colson Whitehead is an accomplished novelist and an insightful essayist (19,000 words on the World Series of Poker!), I’d ...

Beat the Algorithm, MATTERHORN Edition: And the winner is…

Last week, I took on Amazon’s algorithm to recommend a book for Ken, whose last great read was Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes. ...

GENRE KRYPTONITE: Vince Flynn — A Poor Man’s Tom Clancy

We thought Kit’s post about the genres we have an inexplicable weak spot for was so inspired that we thought ...

PUB DAY: The Marriage Plot, by Jeffrey Eugenides

Here’s an unusual, slightly silly way to tell how popular a modern novel is: Check its Wikipedia page. If the ...