The Library and the Intellectual Life

An intellectual life often forms in the strangest, most infertile of conditions. The deep forests of those isolated [army] bases became the kingdom that I took ownership of as a child. I followed the minnow-laced streams as they made their cutting way toward the Trent...

Short Saturday: Mass-Market Reading

A friend of mine drew my attention to this article from the New York Times about a new “project” from author James Patterson: He wants to sell books to people who have abandoned reading for television, video games, movies and social media. So how do you sell books to...