The best education for a writer, I think, is to read a lot - college can be a good place to do that..

My longest love affair: with a book..

Of course we all know people who aren't cut out for college, but I know it's a mistake to think of education only as a route to a better career. Read….

My master's degree was in journalism, but everything important I ever learned about being a journalist I learned on the job..

What's your favorite book?' is a question that is usually only asked by children and banking identity-verification services--and favorite isn't, anyw….

I think it's a terrible mistake to only think in terms of a degree "buying" you something..

I'm not a policy expert - I am only arguing that there is more to an education than an economic ticket..

Reading is sometimes thought of as a form of escapism, and it’s a common turn of phrase to speak of getting lost in a book. But a book can also be wh….

While the fashion industry may, at least at the top end, be thriving, the notion of fashion itself is becoming more and more meaningless. Any discipl….

A book may not tell us exactly how to live our own lives, but our own lives can teach us how to read a book..

Books gave us a way to shape ourselves - to form our thoughts and to signal to each other who we were and who we wanted to be. They were part of our ….

I would have thought that one of the things one should learn from college is that nothing is guaranteed. Even if you study something as vocational as….

But to demand that a work be “relatable” expresses a different expectation: that the work itself be somehow accommodating to, or reflective of, the e….

Best qualification for an aspiring journalist is curiosity..