A Year in Reading: Tom Nissley
I did something in 2014 that would throw a wrench into anyone's reading: I bought a bookstore.
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A Reader’s Book of Days: A Reading List for a Month of Storytelling by the Fire
Did Dickens invent Christmas? It’s sometimes said he did, recreating the holiday as we know it out of the neglect that had been imposed on it by Puritanism, Utilitarianism, and the Scrooge-like forces of the Industrial Revolution.
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A Reader’s Book of Days: A Reading List for the Most Disagreeable Month of the Year
November is the anti-April: gray and dreary, the beginning of the end of things rather than their rebirth. It’s the month you hunker down -- if you don’t give up entirely.
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October Books: A Reading List for the Month of Harvests and Horror
It’s in October that the Overlook Hotel shuts down for the season, leaving Jack Torrance alone for the winter with his family and his typewriter in 'The Shining,' and it’s in October that his son, Danny, starts saying, “Redrum.”
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September Books: A Reading List for Beginnings
September is the start of many things: school, fall, football, the biggest publishing season, the return to work after the end of summer.
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August Books: A Reading List for the Month of Idleness
Put your idleness, if you're fortunate enough to have some, to good use with these suggested August readings.
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July Books: Reading for the Month of Revolutions
Here is a list of suggested reading for the heat and upheaval of July.
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June Books: A Reading List for the Month of Rituals
June is overflowing with matrimony -- but it's also the home of another modern ritual, graduation day -- or, as it's more evocatively known, commencement, an ending that's a beginning.
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May Books: A Reading List for the Month of Love
Unlike the storms of March and the "uncertain glory" of April, Shakespeare's May, with its "darling buds," is always sweet, and ever the month for love.
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April Books: A Reading List for Rebirth and Taxes
Here is a selection of recommended April reading, heavy on birth, death, and rebirth, and a little boredom.
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March Books: A Reading List for Winter’s Thaw
We don't know quite what to do with March. We're excited and frightened by its power and variability. Here is a selection of recommended reading for a moody month.
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February Books: A Reading List for Love and Late-Winter Gloom
Here is a selection of recommended reading for February, full of love, birthdays, and late-winter gloom.
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January Books: A Reading List for the First Month of the New Year
It’s with a sense of incompletion that I offer my nine recommendations here for January, books and poems that begin, or hinge, or are contained in the year’s first month.
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Confessions of a Reluctant Fetishist: Keep Books Adulterated
I don't mean to make a fetish out of printed books, and I'm not asking to burn (or delete) ebooks, or their devices. Maybe all I ask is that digital books be designed in ways that give them character, that help them live and survive individually in your mind, rather than being translated into a common, anonymous display that passes through your memory as quickly as you scroll.
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