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When Stephen Crane Was My Age, He’d Been Dead for 26 Years

As I'm writing this, the New Yorker has just released their "20 under 40" list of young writers to watch. That such a list exists at all is a comfort, I think. It's nice to see 20 talented and youngish...

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Book News Friday: Potluck Edition!

It's so heartbreaking to discover something new and exciting, only to learn moments later that it really sucks. To wit: I didn't realize someone was developing a PC game based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's...

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In Our Time

The prose is clear and simple, and the stories are fresh. In Our Time is a book that will clear your reader's palate. Books mentioned in this post

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A Clean, Well-lighted Place

It was late and every one had left the café except an old man who sat in the shadow the leaves of the tree made against the electric light. In the day time the street was dusty, but at night the dew...

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Roger Ebert: The Powells.com Interview

Roger Ebert, beloved film critic, writer, and, these days, social-media maven, has written a beautiful and moving memoir in Life Itself. Publishers Weekly, in a starred review, described it as...

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Books That Belong Together

I'm a big believer that books, like people, can have partners: there are pairs of books that complement each other and belong together. With some books, as soon as you mention one, someone is bound to...

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Silent Plains

There are seven stories I read at least once a year, for pleasure and in the same very rational spirit that infertile males of certain old (and new) world tribes have eaten rhinoceros horns and tiger...

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What’s in a Book Title?

Naming a novel is painstaking, agonizing, delicate. But does the title matter? It certainly feels consequential to the author. After several years' battle with your laptop keyboard, after 100,000 words...

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The Sun Also Rises

I read this book during my senior year of college to take a break from my business reading requirements. It inspired me to buy a plane ticket to Spain as a graduation present to myself. I went and ran...

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Required Reading: Books That Inspire Travel

Ahead of a trip, many of us gravitate toward books that depict the history and culture of our travel destination. But it can work the other way around, too. Sometimes a book provides such a powerful...

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