When word came last Tuesday night that Philip Roth had passed away, I reacted inappropriately. Gentle reader, would you think less of me if I confessed that upon receiving the… Read more »
Usually, when sums of cash north of one million dollars are invoked on this blog, it is because a celebrity has just received a mega-advance to write a book, or because Amazon has avoided paying… Read more »
The shortlist for the Golden Man Booker —a one-time-only literary prize that is meant to determine the best novel of the past fifty years—has been announced. As reported earlier on this very… Read more »
At CNBC.com, Amanda Macias has written an admiring profile of James “Mad Monk Dog Warrior” Mattis and his voracious reading habits. Macias documents Mattis’s longstanding reputation as a bookworm, citing colleagues… Read more »