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On NPR’s website, Booker Prize winner Aravind Adiga recommends the NYRB Classic To the Finland Station by Edmund Wilson. It’s an excellent recommendation for a book I’d been intrigued by but that I also found a bit intimidating. Apparently, I wasn’t alone: “The book, which was published in 1940, is called a classic and is [...]
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Last week, I posted my list of favorite books of the last ten years. On Facebook, where this blog is syndicated, one reader commented that she hadn’t heard of the books on my list (other than The Corrections) but that she couldn’t understand why someone would want to read a book that reflected their own [...]
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If the blog has been a little bit light lately, it’s because we’ve been working on our new newsletter, The Essential. That project should debut in a few days, at which point, I vow to post some really, really good stuff here on the blog. In the meantime, this blog post at the Avery Anthology [...]
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