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Bookish Snobbery: A Defense of Guilty Pleasures Across Time

Bookish snobbery has plagued the word of reading for generations. One reader unpacks that elitism in a defense of "guilty pleasure" reading.

Against the “Serious Reader”

I would like to set fire to the term “serious reader” and throw its ashes into the sea. That is ...

The Decline and Fall of the Book Reviewing Empire

If anyone ever asked me what parts of the bookish world I’m embarrassed by, they might be surprised by the ...