#guilty pleasures

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.

Why I Insist On My Guilty Pleasure Novels

For this reader by profession, so-called guilty pleasure books are books she's not being paid to read. Here's why reading for pleasure is important to her.

Some Like It Hot: The Literary Function of Sex Scenes in Romance