Tag: Reading

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| May 13, 2016

against time travel

[SPOILER ALERT, I GUESS, EVEN THOUGH I DON’T REVEAL ANY DETAILS] I just finished reading Paul McAuley’s Confluence...

| September 3, 2015

aging and literary taste

Charles McGrath writes, “Who isn’t a critic? We are born picky and judgmental, and as we get older we only become...

| August 28, 2015

on difficulty

In this exchange on literary difficulty I think Leslie Jamison gives us something far more useful than Heller. Here’s...

| July 16, 2015

readerly triage

In the first five pages of The Marvelous Clouds, John Durham Peters says that media are “devices of information”...

| April 11, 2015

Carr on Piper on Jacobs

Here’s Nick Carr commenting on the recent dialogue at the Infernal Machine between me and Andrew Piper: It’s...

| April 3, 2015

four categories of novels

1) Those written for young people and of interest and relevance primarily, or exclusively, to young people (e.g., the...

| March 22, 2015

on reading diverse books

I wasn’t going to weigh in on the #readdiversebooks thing, because, after all, I’m the read-at-whim guy so you...