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Guidelines for Literary Traveling Companions
Now reading: The Manuscript Found in Saragossa, by Jan Potocki. Have I mentioned before how important it is to pick a good book for traveling? Going all the way to Seattle last week (thanks, Spiff!),… more →
The Ambiguities
The Top 8 Reasons I'd Like An E-Reader Under the Christmas Tree, Saul. (And 1 Reason I'm Hesitating)
Teal Ceagh wrote 2 weeks ago: 1. It beats the shit out of carrying around five paperbacks at a time. I mean honestly, when it co … more →
Guidelines for Literary Traveling Companions
willhansen2 wrote 2 months ago: Now reading: The Manuscript Found in Saragossa, by Jan Potocki. Have I mentioned before how importan … more →
Paper Matters
willhansen2 wrote 3 months ago: Now reading: A Child Again, by Robert Coover. I’m going to pick a nit today, because what good … more →
The Decadent Book, or the Book of the Decade?
willhansen2 wrote 5 months ago: Now reading: Only Revolutions, by Mark Z. Danielewski. I will get into the specifics of what this ve … more →
The Art and Science of Travel
willhansen2 wrote 5 months ago: Finished long ago: Autonauts of the Cosmoroute. Reading now: Only Revolutions, by Mark Z. Danielewsk … more →
Savage Detection
willhansen2 wrote 5 months ago: Finished long ago: The Savage Detectives. Reading now: The Empire of Ice Cream, by Jeffrey Ford. Rea … more →
Marginalia: The Reading Experience
abbeville wrote 11 months ago: Its title is straightforward and its site design strictly no-frills, but Daniel Green’s The Re … more →
Casts of Characters
willhansen2 wrote 1 year ago: Now reading: Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens and Other Electricities by Ander Monson. It’ … more →
The Sportscaster in American Literature
willhansen2 wrote 1 year ago: Now reading: End Zone, by Don DeLillo. I’m reading this book in a weird little mass-market pap … more →
Imagination and the Reading Memory
legendumst wrote 1 year ago: Each time I talk to friends about books, watch critics discuss books on television, or read a book r … more →
Afternoon Brief -- Tuesday, September 16
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Yen wrote 1 year ago: Phenix and Phenix Literary Publicists is posting this week about booking authors on and preparing th … more →
Archives, Libraries, Epistemes, and Eccentric Organization
willhansen2 wrote 1 year ago: Just read a terrific issue of the Believer, no. 50 (behind, I’m always behind). Three essays, … more →
The Freedom of Constraint
willhansen2 wrote 1 year ago: Now reading: Sharp Teeth. There was a terrific, seemingly out-of-the blue post on Slate this week by … more →
The Thoughts of Others
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willhansen2 wrote 1 year ago: Now reading: A Passage to India. On the train to the Marabar Caves, an expedition lead by Dr. Aziz, … more →
Is a Pile of Legal Pads the Same as a Book?
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willhansen2 wrote 1 year ago: Before I actually get into The Confessions of Nat Turner, I wanted to briefly discuss the weirdness … more →
The Combination to Unlock the Vault of My Heart
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willhansen2 wrote 1 year ago: So between books is the time when I engage in that futile attempt to catch up with the magazines we … more →
Reading at 30,000 Feet
willhansen2 wrote 1 year ago: I’ve been traveling by air quite a bit lately–home to Nebraska, on business to Minneapol … more →
