The Right Kind of Ambivalence

February 19, 2014 | 1

In the latest entry in By Heart, which I’ve written about before, Thirty Girls author Susan Minot explains why she prefers to read multiple books at once instead of reading through single books from start to finish. Her reasoning? Books are “worlds to dip in and out of, and my relationship to them is continually deepening and evolving.”

is a staff writer for The Millions. He lives in New York.