Literary Odds & Ends

Julian Barnes would love this, I think. One way to have fun with British Literature is to read his book  England, England  (1998). But if yo...

Why read The House on Mango Street ?   It is a work of fiction that depicts the reality of being Mexican and growing up poor in Chicago, ...

Go Set a Watchman is a book I tore through in about four days (If I'd been on vacation, no doubt I would have finished in a day or two...

Students and fans of American Literature, take note. Get your American Literature basics here,  on a great website run by PBS,  the A...

There's no doubt that you can be an avid reader and ignore the art of typography. You can even be a writer and neglect to consider what ...

Highly recommended reading: The Long Loneliness , the Autobiography of Dorothy Day that was first published in 1952. It has not aged a bit....

Don't know what to read?  Reading lists tend to annoy me, because there already seems to be too many books on my shelves that are waitin...