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A Bibliophile’s Miscellany: The Lost Art of Letter Writing

When’s the last time you put pen to paper and wrote a letter? Not an e-mail, not a quickly jotted memo, but an actual hand-written letter, with the date at the top, a more or less formal term of address (you can never go wrong ...
 
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Hay Castle, with the open-air "Honesty Bookshop" below (Photo credit: Michael Graham [CC-BY-SA-2.0], via Wikimedia Commons).
Hay Castle, with the open-air "Honesty Bookshop" below (Photo credit: Michael Graham [CC-BY-SA-2.0], via Wikimedia Commons).
Hay Castle, with the open-air "Honesty Bookshop" below (Photo credit: Michael Graham [CC-BY-SA-2.0], via Wikimedia Commons).

Book Towns: A Bibliophile’s Paradise

My love affair with the kingdom of books began in 2003, when I first read Paul Collins’s delightful memoir, Sixpence House: Lost in a Town of Books, his account of his family’s attempt to make a go at life in Hay-on-Wye, the or...
 
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Great Nonfiction: A Beginner’s Guide

In a culture where we spend childhood reading The Baby-sitters Club, high school and college English classes pressing through the classic novels our teachers foist on us, and adulthood keeping current with the Gone Girls of the...
 
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A Book Lover’s Mixtape: A Playlist of Songs Based on Books

Summer is just around the corner and it’s a great time to update reading lists and playlists for long, lazy days at the beach or just relaxing on the balcony. In the spirit of sunshine, soft-covers, and serenades, I’...
 
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Author Interview with Elizabeth Graver

The End of the Point, Elizabeth Graver   Review To the privileged Porters, Ashaunt Point, on Buzzards Bay in Massachusetts, is far more than just a summer home; it is the place where the family has retreated for five generation...
 
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A Bibliophile’s Miscellany: Dog Books

“Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.” (Groucho Marx)   Britain and America are known as dog-loving nations and, having lived in one or the other country all my life, I happily...
 
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The Old Library at Trinity College Dublin. Photo courtesy of Kimberly B. Roth.
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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What to read? (Part 3) A Matter of Taste

What is literary taste, and how does one develop it? If the question of like / don’t like is insufficient, what other considerations come into play? My guru in this matter is little-read English novelist Arnold Bennett, whose L...
 
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What to read? (Part 2) Like / don’t like

According to Roland Barthes, the laziest form of literary criticism is that which focuses purely on enjoyment. In a famous passage from Roland Barthes (translated here by Richard Howard) he questions the validity of an aestheti...
 
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What to read? (Part 1) Why read?

For those of us whose university days are in the past, for whom books are now non-obligatory, what is the point of reading? Is it now just an escapist leisure activity, or should it be a tool for continuing one’s learning? So: ...
 
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