Lists… What I’m Reading This Fall 25 Oct 201631 Oct 2016 Here’s what I’m either already reading or looking forward to, square in the midst of fall. Alexander Maksik, Shelter in Place Maksik’s third novel turns back toward what’s at least…
Lists… Five Books You Might Have Missed in 2015 14 Oct 201626 Oct 2016 One of the unfortunate realities of literary marketing is that so many books, once they pass their initial window of newness, get swept offstage and forgotten. Even with music this…
Art… What I’m Reading: Photographer JA Mortram 10 Oct 201626 Oct 2016 For the 100th Good Reading Copy post, it’s time to look in a new direction. For three years now, the site has dealt with what I’m reading and why I’m…
Lists… Books about food, books about wine 7 Oct 2016 I’ve almost certainly made it clear that I don’t like internet lists, on balance. They’re lazy and reductive in most cases, and that’s only made worse by clicking through a…
Essay… Charles McGrath on John O’Hara 6 Oct 20166 Oct 2016 Image courtesy of Library of America Charles McGrath has been, at various times, editor of the New York Times Book Review and deputy editor at the New Yorker. More recently,…
Uncategorized John Casey on James Salter and Breece Pancake 6 Oct 20166 Oct 2016 Earlier this year, University of Virginia Press released The Art of Fiction, a bound version of three lectures James Salter gave while serving as Kapnick Foundation Distinguished Writer-in-Residence for 2014.…