Q & Q & Q & A
From Tove Jansson’s The Summer Book.
NYT “Best Book”
As the poet William Bronk said, in response to a survey asking for the ten best books of American poetry published since 1945, “Don’t ask me. I believe the arts are not competitive.”
積ん読, Berlin
2004, 2009, 2018: it’s time to read Jason Lutes’s Berlin.
Stoner FTW
John Williams’s novel Stoner has been named Waterstones’s Book of the Year.
Too Late the Phalarope
I think I’m a better person for having read Too Late the Phalarope. And now I wonder why its enigmatic title didn’t move me to read it sooner.
Lost James M. Cain novel
To be published next fall.
Roger Lathbury and Hapworth 16, 1924
How the publication of a Salinger novella came to naught
Jay Bennett (1912–2009)
He wrote one of the best books of my youth
Children, “best readers in the world”
Novelist Katherine Paterson on her readers
Clifford Hicks’s new Alvin Fernald novel
Alvin Fernald forever
Jellyby closets
Passage from Charles Dickens' Bleak House
Good news, bad news about reading
From the National Endowment for the Humanities: fiction up, overall reading down
Reading don't pay
From Dickens' Bleak House