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What happens to reading if everything becomes c...

I did that thing the other night where I opened my phone “just for a second” to check something, and then resurfaced about 27 minutes later after watching a woman...

Fact and fiction walked into a bar...

Fiction was already at the bar when Fact arrived.“Late again,” she said, tilting her glass toward him. “Did you calculate the optimal time to arrive, or did the narrative just...

A small rebellion against glass cabinets

This little shop has introduced me to some very interesting readers. Over the past few weeks I’ve been chatting with a few of you about the kinds of books you’re...

Open wide

I was at the dentist recently, which is not traditionally where one expects to confront questions of punctuation.You’re horizontal. A bright light is interrogating you. A stranger is commenting on...

The cat with a hundred names

Every box of books that comes into this house must pass inspection. It’s not dramatic. It’s hardly noticeable to anyone else. But to me, it feels like a quiet hinge...

Still no great novels about cheese

G. K. Chesterton once mused that “the poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.”No odes to brie. No tragic sonnets about cheddar. Literature it seems has its...