Nation Loses its Shit Over Book
Uff da! Norwegian writer Karl Ove Knausgaard’s six-volume autobiography, My Struggle, is so popular that it’s wreaking social havoc across Europe, according to no less an expert on civil unrest than...
View ArticleThe Top Ten Books [I had Time to Read] This Year
Foreground: Baby. Background: Books. I became a parent in the Spring of 2014. Which is a wonderful thing, but it means that I spent my severely reduced reading time with books like The Happiest Baby on...
View ArticleThe 10 Best Things to Read Instead of Mein Kampf
I know we all want people buying more books, but this can’t be good: Only three days after Adolf Hitler’s notorious autobiography Mein Kampf (“My Struggle”) was re-released in Germany, following its...
View ArticlePiss-Take
In June I went to hear author Lauren Groff on her book tour for her new short story collection, Florida. Someone in the audience asked her what she’d been reading, and she mentioned Rachel Cusk’s...
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