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"Miss Auras, The Red Book" by Sir John Lavery (c. 1890) {PD-1923}

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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Bibliotherapy

Dorothea Lange's photograph (for the War Relocation Authority) of Dave Tatsuno rereading his University of California notes before evacuation in 1936.

What to read? (Part 10) Rereading

There is a particular art and pleasure to rereading – a fact agreed upon by many of the authors and critics I’ve consulted recently. Dip into the books-about-books genre and you’ll discover that authors almost invariably exhort...

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Awesome Books

Binge-reading: Book Lists to Devour

Whether you think of it this way or not, you’ve probably been binge-reading all your life. My first big foray into binge-reading was a series called The Saddle Club, about three girls having crazy horse-related adventures in th...

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Bibliotherapy

Mary Cassatt's Nurse Reading to a Little Girl, 1895. (Public Domain {PD-1923})

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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Bibliotherapy

Bestsellers for sale in a German supermarket (Photo credit: Olaf Simons)

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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New Reads

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Spring Cleaning: Simple Steps to a Healthy, Happy Book Collection

There’s a handy quotation, generally attributed to William Faulkner, that always seems to crop up a few weeks into any creative writing class: “In writing, you must kill your darlings.” The idea is that, sometimes, the essay or...

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New York Public Library (Photo credit: Alex Proimos)

What to read? (Part 7) Readability

What makes the difference between those books you just can’t tear yourself away from, and the ones that take a lot of time and determination to finish? “It was a real page-turner…I just couldn’t put it down…it kept me up long p...

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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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Bibliotherapy

Outdoor book sale and mural at Brattle Bookshop in Boston.

What to read? (Part 5) Bibliotherapy

The history of bibliotherapy Over the past weeks I’ve been looking at how reading can be a means of pleasure, education, and self-development. But I also happen to believe – and I’m not the only one, not by a long shot – that a...

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Bibliotherapy

The Old Library at Trinity College Dublin. Photo courtesy of Kimberly B. Roth.

What to read? (Part 4) The Literary Canon

What makes the classics so ‘classic,’ and why should modern readers still seek to experience them? Nothing to be frightened of As Arnold Bennett reflected, it is easy to feel daunted when approaching the literary canon – “The a...

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