I am a fan of David Brooks, even though my politics may tend to drift a bit left of his. I enjoy his columns every week, and I especially like the subject matter of his latest book, The Social Animal–out now in stores and online. […]
I love the headlines at this Guardian post: “Reading is overrated. Too many people will have you believe that our very humanity resides in books – and that’s reading a little too much into it.” So is it true? Is reading overrated? Of course I […]
I’m a big fan of Malcom Gladwell’s well-known books. This site (The Malcolm Gladwell Book Generator), created by another fan, nonetheless pokes a bit of fun at the author’s well-known style of intellectual journalims. My favorite is Slurp: What Kitten’s Tongues Teach Us About Derivatives. […]
If you had to list your favorite top ten books of all time, could you do it? it’s hard to create a list like that. I recently stumbled upon this Web site that lists famous authors and their favorite books. It’s called The Top Ten. […]
I’m excited to get started on a new, well-received, biography of George Washington. It’s called Washington: A Life, written by Ron Chernow, whose last book was a wonderful biography of Alexander Hamilton. Here is a synopsis of the book, published at Barnes and Noble: “In […]
I’m a great fan of Bruce Chatwin’s writing. I’ve read all of his works aside from one of his “novels” (fans will know why I put that in quotes) as well as two biographies, so I was excited to learn that a volume of his […]
An interesting bit of blblio news from ABC News: “The world’s biggest book fair in Frankfurt is used to seeing some big book launches, but none came larger than a six-by-nine-foot (two-by-three-metre) Atlas unveiled on Wednesday. “Yours for a cool 100,000 dollars, Australian publisher Gordon […]
It seems that Jonathan Franzen’s latest novel is all the rage…even though it hasn’t even been published yet. The New York Times has already published a lengthy review (by Book Review editor Sam Tanenhaus no less), while other publications across the world weigh in as […]
Preliminary research is showing that people who buy e-readers are actually reading more than they ever have before. This recent article from the Wall Street Journal highlights some of the most recent data. From the story: “A study of 1,200 e-reader owners by Marketing and […]