These are the books I’ve read this year… NonFiction The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can’t Stand Positive Thinking by Oliver Burkeman (2012) Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle by Chris Hedges (2009) My Bookstore: Writers Celebrate Their Favorite Places to Browse, Read and Shop edited by Ronald Rice …
If you are the kind of person that can lose yourself in the maze of book shelves of a book store; who cherishes the physical structure of the book with its artistic covers surrounding the thickness of pages between; who can smell the wood of the shelves you lean upon as you open one, seeing …
In the fall of 2009, I joined a bowling league. It was a men’s league in St. Clair Shores, and I was fortunate that an opening was on a team of senior citizens (two over the age of 70, and two over the age of 80). They were the last place team and participated for …
“A ‘text’ existing only on a screen and in the mind is not, to me, a book. To me, it is not enough that a book is thought realized in language; it must also be language further realized in print on paper pages bound between covers. It is a material artifact, a thing made not …
“Put it before them briefly so they will read it; clearly so they will appreciate it; picturesquely so they will remember it; and, above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light.” Joseph Pulitzer.
“Good novels are written by people who are not frightened.” George Orwell.
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