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For some people, the years between when they learn how to read and, say, leave home, consist of reading. To others, that idea is perplexing. I was marr…
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“Books, like islands, appear and disappear.” How a midcentury novel about declining nobility on a time-bound island speaks to the moment.
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Finding a satisfying reading life is more about ways of reading than finding a particular book, weaving reading into who you are.
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In their unnvervingly timed new book, Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley investigate humanity’s most potent and problematic tool for managing contagion. …
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by Ann Kjellberg, editor  The metaverse: land of opportunity or peril for the arts and ideas?
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Join us as we ask Padgett Powell what he meant when he wrote (in Book Post!) “I do not think a book review serves a man or a woman or a book.”
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Even though novelist Kathryn Davis had a mother and a father and a little sister, she strongly identified with Jane Eyre as an orphan, however dimly Ja…
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For Ralph Waldo Emerson—Waldo to his friends—turning thirty was not a happy event. “After thirty,” he wrote in 1835, “a man wakes up sad every morning.…
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by Ann Kjellberg, editor   by Ann Kjellberg, editor What does the supply chain crisis mean for books? Sadly more of the same. More power at the top, m…
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The just-over-sixty novelist Jonathan Franzen, who sprang from a generation of wunderkinds that included Jay McInerney, Bret Easton Ellis, Donna Tartt,…
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Join Book Post’s Ann Kjellberg, Minneapolis Star Tribune’s Laurie Hertzel, and ALA Booklist’s Donna Seaman for the lowdown on how books get chosen for …
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Lucille Clifton‘s Mammy Ca’line walked through Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina when she was eight years old.
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