JMD: Thank you for writing this remarkable book. I learned a huge amount from reading it, and it left me with a desire to delve deeper into its subject and read some of the intriguing primary texts you have amassed as the book’s corpus; many of them include images that are as important as the […]
Jenny Davidson talks to Tina Lupton, author of Reading and the Making of Time in the Eighteenth Century
Tina Lupton talks about her new book, Reading and the Making of Time in Eighteenth-Century England
Sheila Liming’s List of Writers Who Excel at Lists
To list is to write, but there is more to writing than the mere act of listing. Bad writing can, at times, feel like a list, as when a writer delivers a serialized array of plot points, a roster of charmless characters, or else overindulges in exposition. But good writing can, and very often does, […]
Sara Landreth on Susan Harlan’s Decorating a Room of One’s Own
Bookshelves are not only a great way to communicate to people that you’re smart; they’re also excellent for murdering people. You just have to knock one over, and blammo! Heart attack. I suggest something tall—like IKEA’s Billy bookcases, with the extensions—and you absolutely must not anchor them to the wall. (Interview with Margaret Schlegel, “Margaret […]