All of the disparate books on my list contain characters, scenes or voices that linger long past the last page of their stories.
To read Helen Macdonald's memoir, H Is for Hawk, is to feel as though Emily Bronte just turned up at your door, trailing all the windy, feral outdoor… - Maureen Corrigan
To read Helen Macdonald's memoir, H Is for Hawk, is to feel as though Emily Bronte just turned up at your door, trailing all the windy, feral outdoor…
- Maureen Corrigan
According to a Wall Street Journal article some 59 percent of Americans don t own a single book. Not a cookbook or even the Bible. - Maureen Corrigan
According to a Wall Street Journal article some 59 percent of Americans don t own a single book. Not a cookbook or even the Bible.
In our daily lives, where we're bombarded by the fake and the trivial, reading serves as a way to stop, shut out the noise of the world, and try to g… - Maureen Corrigan
In our daily lives, where we're bombarded by the fake and the trivial, reading serves as a way to stop, shut out the noise of the world, and try to g…
All of the disparate books on my list contain characters, scenes or voices that linger long past the last page of their stories. - Maureen Corrigan
Reality TV, blogging and self-publishing are all evidence of a society's or culture's desire to be more public. And that's a sign of a healthy or ene… - Maureen Corrigan
Reality TV, blogging and self-publishing are all evidence of a society's or culture's desire to be more public. And that's a sign of a healthy or ene…
A hilarious academic novel that'll send you laughing (albeit ruefully) back into the trenches of the classroom. . . . [A] mordant minor masterpiece. … - Maureen Corrigan
A hilarious academic novel that'll send you laughing (albeit ruefully) back into the trenches of the classroom. . . . [A] mordant minor masterpiece. …
We read literature for a lot of reasons, but two of the most compelling ones are to get out of ourselves and our life stories and – equally important… - Maureen Corrigan
We read literature for a lot of reasons, but two of the most compelling ones are to get out of ourselves and our life stories and – equally important…
Flawless . . . Tightly choreographed . . . Shipstead gains entry into exclusive worlds and trains her opera glasses on private social rituals, as wel… - Maureen Corrigan
Flawless . . . Tightly choreographed . . . Shipstead gains entry into exclusive worlds and trains her opera glasses on private social rituals, as wel…
It’s Fitzgerald’s thin-but-durable urge to affirm that finally makes Gatsby worthy of being our Great American Novel. Its soaring conclusion tells us… - Maureen Corrigan
It’s Fitzgerald’s thin-but-durable urge to affirm that finally makes Gatsby worthy of being our Great American Novel. Its soaring conclusion tells us…
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