How will artificial intelligence change literature?
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Reading Lessons
You never stop learning how to read — probably because you also never stop forgetting how to read.
Posted inArts & Culture, Highlight, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes
How Do We Read in a Digital World?
Digitization has changed the way readers experience literature — and examine themselves.
Posted inNonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes
On the Books We Choose and Those We Don’t
“All the people you could have been had you chosen differently—they haunt the bookstore alongside the person you became and could still become.”
Posted inBooks, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
On Not Being Able to Read
In law school, they told me I wouldn’t be able to read anymore. That the pleasure of the text, like a lover in a non-law degree, would slowly grow opaque to me.
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Jonathan Franzen’s “Readers”
Haters could write the book on hate reading Jonathan Franzen, but he wouldn’t read it and neither would they.
Posted inArts & Culture, Crime, Nonfiction, Story, Writing
The Death Row Book Club
When Anthony Ray Hinton was sentenced to death for two murders he didn’t commit, he used his time to create a book club for death row inmates.
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Judging Books By Their Covers
A personal essay in which author Jason Diamond tries to make sense of his obsession with collecting Vintage Contemporaries paperbacks from the 80s.
Posted inBlog Post, Reading List
Harry Potter and the Long-Term Global Impact
J.K. Rowling’s first book was published 20 years ago today. Did it create better readers, or just more of them?
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Travel Writing for Americans Who Stay Home
An editor reflects on a career in travel writing, even as Americans travel less and are exposed to less diversity.