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A Bibliophile’s Miscellany: Epistolary Novels

Last week I wrote about the complementary lost arts of letter writing and handwriting. Literary correspondence, once such a venerable genre, just hasn’t been the same since the advent of e-mail and text messages. And yet the ep...
 
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Review: The Paper Garden by Molly Peacock

I first came across Mary Delany’s intricate paper flowers at an exhibition held at one of London’s great treasure troves, the Sir John Soane’s Museum, in early 2010. Though at the time I recognized the flower mosaics as gorgeou...
 
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Summer Reading Special: A Bibliophile’s Miscellany of France

July is the month when many countries celebrate their national day: it was Canada Day on the 1st, America’s birthday (of course) on the 4th, but also Algeria’s and Venezuela’s Independence Day celebrations on the 5th, Malawi’s ...
 
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S**t Happens in the Great American Novel: Scatological Literature

I have a little theory that all of the new contenders for the title of ‘Great American Novel’ are required to include an episode of scatological humor. Think of Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom (2010), in which a young man must sift ...
 
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A Bibliophile’s Miscellany: Books on the Financial Crisis

I don’t claim to understand very much about the economics or history of the downturn that began around 2008. What little I do know I largely attribute to the books I’ve read about it, both fiction and nonfiction. Many authors h...
 
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Is Reading Selfish?

I recently discovered a kindred spirit in Maureen Corrigan, author of Leave Me Alone, I’m Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books. As a Georgetown professor and book reviewer for NPR’s “Fresh Air” program, Corrigan is lucky...
 
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What to read? (Part 9) Reading Together

Reading is usually seen as a silent, solitary activity, but it doesn’t have to be. Whether you’re reading aloud with a child or a friend, having a spirited discussion in a book club setting, or joining in with a “One Book, One ...
 
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What to read? (Part 8) Reading Bestsellers

Best books and bestsellers Every reader will, at some point, have to decide how to deal with the inevitable guilt that comes from contemplating everything not yet read: all the canonical classics, all the top sellers, all the b...
 
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What to read? (Part 6) Catharsis

Sometimes reading really depressing books can be good for you. From Aristotle’s classic theory of catharsis to the modern ‘misery memoir,’ I explore how encountering literary tragedy can actually be uplifting.   The classical t...
 
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