Refining the Art of the Book Recommendation
Have you ever recommended a book to a friend, certain he’d love it as much as you did, only to be crushed when he tells you he “just didn’t get it,” or “couldn’t stay with it”? Okay, maybe you weren’t crushed, but endorsing books can still be a tricky business, just as picking them out [...]
The Five Perfect Apocalypses?
I dislike “Best of” book lists as much as anyone else does, though, I suspect, not for the same reasons. I don’t hate them because of the inevitable arguments they inspire over validity, bias, or inclusiveness, or even due to the speculations that the lister may have perhaps been high on illicit pharmaceuticals at the [...]
The Premature Obituary of the Book?
A friend passed this article on to me, and I encourage anyone who teaches, writes, or reads literature to give it a look. It’s called “The Premature Obituary of the Book” and was written by Mario Vargas Llosa. Essentially, the author discusses the growing perception of literature as nothing more than a form of entertainment [...]
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Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.
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