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 energetic culture.
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
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…
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…
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.
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
All of the disparate books on my list contain characters, scenes or voices that linger long past the last page of their stories.
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…
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…
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…
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. …
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