NYRB sale
Big savings.
FSRC: annual report
The Four Seasons Reading Club, our household’s two-person adventure in reading, has finished its ninth year.
“Decline by 9”
In “Not Lost in a Book” (Slate ), Dan Kois writes about a decline in children’s reading.
Bookstores, reading, data
from the Department of Data at The Washington Post, bad news and some good news about bookstores and reading.
E.M. Forster on books on Frasier
Words in Niles’s library.
NYRB sale
The Four Seasons Reading Club placed an order this afternoon for Anton Chekhov, Helen Keller, and Jean Stafford.
Robert Gottlieb (1931-2023)
“I would read three to four books a day after school, and could read for 16 hours at a time,” he told the Times in 1980. “Mind you, that’s all I did. I belonged to three lending libraries and the public library.”
“Books are weapons in the war of ideas”
A 1942 poster with words from Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Books UnBanned
Books UnBanned offers readers between the ages of thirteen and twenty-one, anywhere in the United States, a year’s free access to the Brooklyn Public Library’s e-books and audiobooks.
Don’t like a library book?
From Take action for libraries, a handy step-by-step guide: “What do I do if I don't like a book at the library?”
FSRC: annual report
The Four Seasons Reading Club, our household’s two-person adventure in reading, has finished its eighth year. A full report follows.
FSRC: annual report
Our household’s two-person reading club: novels, novellas, short-story collections, graphic novels, non-fiction, a Socratic dialogue, a children’s story, and a poem.
Q & Q & Q & A
From Tove Jansson’s The Summer Book.
Reading in NYC
From The New York Times, photographs of people reading in New York City.
“Favorite Books”
An anonymous reader asked me to “correct” the Favorite Books section of my Blogger profile by listing titles instead of writers. From my point of view, there’s nothing to fix. As my wife Elaine suggests, you can take any name on the list as prefaced by the words “anything by.”
FSRC: annual report
Nine novels, two plays, one short-story collection, and one mountain.
Person, woman, man, books, TV
A president and his sister: “What do you do?” the president asked. “I read,” Barry replied. “What do you read?” the president said. “Books,” Barry said.
Chicken and cheese
As a boy, with Dracula as my inspiration, I would add a slice of American cheese to my plate whenever we had chicken for dinner. Cheese, right?
FSRC: annual report
The Four Seasons Reading Club, our household’s two-person adventure in reading, just finished its fifth year.
FSRC: annual report
The Four Seasons Reading Club, our household’s two-person adventure in reading, just finished its fifth year.
Recently updated
“By the Book” for the rest of us, now with more books.
Recently updated
“By the Book” for the rest of us, now with more childhood reading.
Recently updated
“By the Book” for the rest of us, now with more books.
Recently updated
“By the Book,” now with a link to questions and answers from another blogger.
“By the Book” for the rest of us
What books are on your nightstand?
College these days
You can find nuance in this piece from The Chronicle of Higher Education if you like, but here’s the bottom line: a professor invited his students to read a book — a “physical book” — for extra credit.
FSRC: annual report
The Four Seasons Reading Club, our household’s two-person adventure in reading, just finished its fourth year.
A home entertainment system
Ammon Shea: “The fact that my shelves are filled with things I haven’t yet read and want to, and things that I’ve read before and want to revisit, means I will never be at a loss for entertainment at home.”
A meeting of the minds
Another step toward what I call the reality-TV-ification of everything : today’s Donald Trump–Kanye West meeting. How glorious to have two proud non-readers of books in the Oval Office at the same time.
Balzac: books and flowers
As necessary as bread.