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How I Learned To Read

I learned to read when I opened my eyes. I learned to read when I learned I loved stories. I ...

10 MORE Bookish Facebook Feeds You Should Follow

Amanda crushed it last week with this post about book-related Facebook pages you should “like.” Let’s keep the party going! ...

Handicapping the Nobel Prize in Lit: Philip Roth vs. E.L. James?

Let it not be said that the folks at Ladbrokes don’t have a sense of humor. There, at the end ...

Advanced Citizenship: A Reading List for Becoming an Informed Voter

In the opening sequence of the first episode of The Newsroom, the main character, newsman Will McAvoy, is asked the ...

Top 10 Literary Quotes from The Simpsons

The Simpsons is famous for many things — being the longest running American sitcom (and animated series) ever, unleashing a ...

When Literary Opposites Attract

People often ask me — since I’m always reading more than one book at once — how do you keep ...

The Top Six Baseball Novels

Hope springs eternal! Happy Opening Day! Baseball’s summer-long march to the Fall Classic begins today, and to celebrate and get ...

READING PATHWAYS: Philip Roth, Volume I: The Social Novels

I’m cheating with this one. To my mind, there are two main thoroughfares through Roth’s work: the big social novels ...

Fun With Bad Sex (Writing)

Nothing is more giggle-inducing than either a horribly written sex scene in an otherwise serious piece of literature, or, alternatively, ...

Betting the 2011 Nobel Prize for Literature

Ladbroke’s, one of those English gambling houses that seem to have a prop for everything, has an extensive board for ...