I love getting recommendations for blogs about reading. I love lists, year-end or otherwise, of people’s favorite books, and I love to dip into someone else’s reading list for a moment, to get a glimpse of great titles out there that I haven’t even heard of yet.
And I also love snark. So while this post [...]

Maybe the holidays left you broke. Maybe you couldn’t take vacation days off work. Or maybe you got stranded by the SnOMG! XVIII that snarled flights from the Midwest to the east coast. Whatever the reason, you’re not at AWP this weekend. What to do instead?
Well, if you’re in Brooklyn, there’s [...]

Garrison Keillor responds to the NEA report that reading is on the rise.

Welcome to an alternate reality where editorial assistants start at $80,000, 18 copyeditors are assigned to each book, and blogs are hailed as a higher art form…but can we please never say, even in jest, that a novel takes between 10 and 30 years to write? **sound of my head exploding**

Thanks, Kathryn, for the link!