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Of Biographies and Bob Dylan

“biography”: the story of a real person’s life written by someone other than that person I’ve been thinking a lot ...

What Next?: Three Books to Read After THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO

Love The Count of Monte Cristo? Here are three books to read after it.

Thomas Jefferson Was A Bit of a Tart and Other Trivia I Learned in Meacham’s New Bio

Jon Meacham’s new biography Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power is a detailed and fascinating account of the President’s life ...

Genre Kryptonite: Books About Charles Dickens

It’s a very odd thing, my weakness for books about Charles Dickens, although it might not seem odd straight away. ...

Reading Flannery in Savannah

[Editor’s Note: Today is Flannery O’Connor’s birthday; she was born 87 years ago today in Savannah, Georgia] Shortly after I ...

Our Reading Lives: Death, Here is Thy Sting

This is a guest post by David Abrams. David is a novelist, short story writer, reviewer, and book evangelist. His novel ...