I’m going to preface this post by apologizing: I know I’ve written about this subject many times before, and recently, but I feel compelled to write at least once more; hence, this post. I promise I’ll try to curb any urges to write similar posts in the future. A week or so ago, the NY [...]
Category Archive — New York Times
Book News, June 5th
I don’t know what it’s like where you are, but the northeast is facing a humidity wave that’s making me crazy. Thank goodness most books can double as fans. While I cool off, here’s this week’s book news. A couple of weeks ago, The Millions posted an in-depth interview with Roxana Saberi, the Iranian-American journalist [...]
All by Myself
In some ways, reading is an inherently anti-social activity. While parents and children may read together before the child can read on his or her own, most readers read in solitude. Perhaps there are other people in the room, but the experience of reading the words on the page happens between the reader and the [...]
