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Julia Alvarez on Angie Cruz, 'To The Lighthouse,' and The Book That Made Her Miss a Train Stop
Elle via Yahoo News· 3 months agoShelf Life: Julia AlvarezPORTRAIT BY Todd Balfour for Middlebury College / ILLUSTRATION BY YOUSRA...
UNESCO World Book Day: The books that made us
Euronews via Yahoo News· 2 months agoToday is UNESCO World Book Day, a celebration to promote the enjoyment of books and reading. Each year, events take place all over the world to recognize...
Isaac Mizrahi on Agatha Christie, 'Less,' and the Book That Holds the Recipe to a Favorite Dish
Elle via Yahoo News· 1 year agoShelf Life: Isaac MizrahiPORTRAIT BY Gregg Richards / ILLUSTRATION BY YOUSRA ATTIA Welcome to Shelf...
Nicholas Goldberg: In defense of long, bug-crushing, Kleenex-box sized novels
Los Angeles Times Opinion via Yahoo News· 2 years agoIn 2009, author Hilary Mantel won the Booker Prize for her 600-plus-page novel "Wolf Hall," the...
Filterworld Is a Confused Critique of Algorithms
Reason.com via Yahoo News· 5 months agoIllustration: Lex Villena. Source image: Doubleday Kyle Chayka's Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture is engaging, refined, and well-composed....
Can You Name the Longest Book in the World?
HowStuffWorks via Yahoo News· 2 months agoWhen discussing the longest book in the world, various criteria can determine the titleholder: the word count, the number of pages or even the character count (characters meaning letters, not personalities).
Lydia Davis’s Very Short Stories to Save the World
The New Republic via Yahoo News· 8 months agoSeveral years ago, Lydia Davis made a decision never to set foot in France again. Why such a prohibition—for the translator of Madame Bovary and In...
Hisham Matar's 6 favorite books that are part of a collection
The Week via Yahoo News· 4 months agoHisham Matar. When you make a purchase using links on our site, The Week may earn a commission. All...
What's a reading slump? Jenna Bush Hager tells us how she broke hers
TODAY via Yahoo News· 1 year agoWhat is the meaning of a reading slump, and what is its opposite? Read on for the definition of a...
Paul Murray suggests 6 reads that transport, captivate and inspire
The Week via Yahoo News· 10 months agoPaul Murray. Paul Murray. Irish novelist Paul Murray is the author of "An Evening of Long Goodbyes"...