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1. To survive our high-speed society, cultivate 'temporal bandwidth' July 3, 2018
2. Paris Review - William Gibson, The Art of Fiction No. 211 January 4, 2017
3. Guillermo del Toro's Twitter book recommendations (with tweets) · tehgort · Storify June 12, 2016
4. Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less February 16, 2016
5. Basin and Range February 9, 2016
6. Out Stealing Horses February 8, 2016
7. Aurora January 3, 2016
8. Target in the Night December 30, 2015
9. The Man Who Knew Too Much December 29, 2015
10. Equilateral December 22, 2015
11. When Popular Fiction Isn’t Popular: Genre, Literary, and the Myths of Popularity | Electric Literature December 15, 2015
12. The Book of Strange New Things November 25, 2015
13. Beautiful Mutants / Swallowing Geography November 24, 2015
14. Out of Sight September 20, 2015
15. The map of American literature’s most epic road trips July 26, 2015
16. Selfish July 26, 2015
17. Koji Kondo’s Super Mario Bros. Soundtrack July 21, 2015
18. The Girl on the Train July 12, 2015
19. Reading War and Peace on my iPhone July 9, 2015
20. Euphoria July 5, 2015
21. Gluyas Williams June 24, 2015
22. Dark Places June 18, 2015
23. Train Dreams June 16, 2015
24. Thrillers June 9, 2015
25. Three-Ten to Yuma, and Other Stories May 25, 2015
26. Sphinx May 17, 2015
27. The Inner Game of Tennis May 14, 2015
28. Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind May 13, 2015
29. Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When the Stakes Are High May 12, 2015
30. Wolf in White Van April 28, 2015
31. True Grit April 28, 2015
32. The Fault in Our Stars April 22, 2015
33. 2001: A Space Odyssey April 21, 2015
34. The Martian April 16, 2015
35. How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life February 20, 2015
36. The Time of Our Singing February 17, 2015
37. Sorry Please Thank You February 9, 2015
38. StrengthsFinder 2.0 February 8, 2015
39. Texas: The Great Theft February 7, 2015
40. The Life-changing Magic of Tidying Up January 27, 2015
41. “READ A FUCKING BOOK” hacked LED street sign in downtown LA January 13, 2015
42. The Amazon order test as an algorithm for evaluating books January 7, 2015
43. The Best Books I Read, 2014 January 3, 2015
44. Meditations January 3, 2015
45. Cyberbooks January 2, 2015
46. A Sense of Where You Are December 22, 2014
47. How You Know December 21, 2014
48. Nobody Is Ever Missing December 19, 2014
49. Stoner December 16, 2014
50. Tom Gauld is so good December 16, 2014
51. The Reluctant Fundamentalist November 20, 2014
52. The Thin Man November 19, 2014
53. The Rise of the Fragmented Novel (An Essay in 26 Fragments) October 21, 2014
54. Super Sad True Love Story October 19, 2014
55. Gone Girl October 17, 2014
56. Dirty Love September 30, 2014
57. Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life September 28, 2014
58. How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe August 29, 2014
59. Sacred Hoops August 24, 2014
60. Emily Dickinson: Selected Poems August 19, 2014
61. Definitely Maybe August 17, 2014
62. Flush August 8, 2014
63. All the Pretty Horses August 6, 2014
64. Manhunts: A Philosophical History August 5, 2014
65. The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel August 4, 2014
66. Solaris July 24, 2014
67. Nicely Said: Writing for the Web with Style and Purpose (review) July 23, 2014
68. The Golden Spruce July 20, 2014
69. Duplex July 2, 2014
70. The Obstacle Is the Way June 22, 2014
71. The Left Hand of Darkness June 22, 2014
72. Tumble Home June 20, 2014
73. Submergence (review) June 16, 2014
74. I read George Saunders’ Tenth of December June 16, 2014
75. Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief June 14, 2014
76. Let’s Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste June 9, 2014
77. The Interrogative Mood June 7, 2014
78. The New Face Of Literary Publishing In Dallas | Art&Seek June 6, 2014
79. Magic Hours June 6, 2014
80. Concealing what is shameful to you will never lead to anything of value March 11, 2014
81. Robin Sloan'€™s Book Bag: Five Science Fiction Books That Matter October 1, 2013
82. Lynda Barry: The 20 stages of reading September 17, 2013
83. An Impossible Number of Books: Matthew L. Jockers's "Macroanalysis" - August 30, 2013
84. Not New York: Building Book Culture in Dallas, TX | Publishing Trendsetter August 18, 2013
85. Borges and the Sharknado Problem July 29, 2013
86. The Jefferson Bible - The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth by Thomas Jefferson June 2, 2013
87. Does reading have a future? A noted Canadian philosopher gazes into the future May 29, 2013
88. Why it’s ok to buy books and not read them April 19, 2013
89. I am not a scholar April 17, 2013
90. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy on an e-reader March 29, 2013
91. How to read a book March 14, 2013
92. Meet the Flannery O’Connor of the Internet age - Salon.com January 31, 2013
93. Literature is Eucharistic January 23, 2013
94. Everybody talks about the writer’s feeling and expression January 23, 2013
95. Jacob Silverman: Some Notes on a Book January 15, 2013
96. Noted - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education January 14, 2013
97. Favorite books of 2012 January 8, 2013
98. George Saunders Has Written the Best Book You’ll Read This Year - NYTimes.com January 7, 2013
99. The Millions : My New Year’s Resolution: Read Fewer Books January 5, 2013
100. What I Read, 2007-2012 December 30, 2012
101. Secret Reading Lives, Revealed - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education December 27, 2012
102. Antifragile: How to Live in a World We Don't Understand by Nassim Nicholas Taleb – review | The Guardian November 25, 2012
103. Joe Queenan: My 6,128 Favorite Books - WSJ.com October 25, 2012
104. Why Books Are The Ultimate New Business Card | Fast Company September 26, 2012
105. n+1: Money September 7, 2012
106. Random! Postmodern Bio Blurbs » 3:AM Magazine September 5, 2012
107. Summer Reading… and Programming July 29, 2012
108. The Millions: The Stockholm Syndrome Theory of Long Novels July 11, 2012
109. The novels we know best have an architecture July 9, 2012
110. Wehr in the World: 30+ hours of TV later... April 22, 2012
111. How Do You Make Life-Changing Decisions? | RyanHoliday.net April 3, 2012
112. God with magnificent irony / gives me at once both books and night March 25, 2012
113. n 1: Listening to Books March 9, 2012
114. Frank Chimero - Library March 2, 2012
115. I made a cute dog video disguised as a book trailer February 20, 2012
116. The Bomb and the General by Umberto Eco February 16, 2012
117. Gary Taubes on Dieting | FiveBooks | The Browser January 17, 2012
118. How American food got so bad — Marginal Revolution December 15, 2011
119. Cooking Food Featured in Fantasy Novels - WSJ.com December 9, 2011
120. A Private Library Is a Universal Legacy Pretending to Be Individual November 29, 2011
121. Silva rerum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia November 14, 2011
122. By seven everyone is gone October 27, 2011
123. The Dozens: A History of Rap’s Mama, by Elijah Wald September 26, 2011
124. The Millions : Nobody Hearts L.A.: A Personal Los Angeles Canon September 14, 2011
125. The syllabus to an English class at Rutgers September 5, 2011
126. Laurence Sterne diagrams the first five volumes of Tristram Shandy August 29, 2011
127. We choose our favourite author as we do our friend, from a conformity… August 10, 2011
128. The Epidemic of Mental Illness: Why? by Marcia Angell | The New York Review of Books July 4, 2011
129. some of my evaluative patterns May 14, 2011
130. BPS Research Digest: The books and journal articles all psychologists should read May 10, 2011
131. Does the Novel Have a Future? The Answer Is In This Essay! April 26, 2011
132. Wehr in the World: Introducing my new book-thingy: 446ish* Ideas** Worth***… March 28, 2011
133. Marginal Revolution: The quality of fiction vs. the quality of non-fiction March 3, 2011
134. Marilyn by Larry McMurtry | The New York Review of Books February 23, 2011
135. Tests for Husbands and Wives February 17, 2011
136. The Great Gatsby - for NES February 16, 2011
137. The Malcolm Gladwell Book Generator February 8, 2011
138. The Problem With Memoirs - NYTimes.com January 31, 2011
139. Marginal Revolution: In praise of picture books January 25, 2011
140. Our Psychic Living Room: Why It's Particularly Important to Read David Foster Wallace - TCR January 15, 2011
141. Our Psychic Living Room: Why It's Particularly Important to Read David Foster Wallace - TCR January 15, 2011
142. 2010 Review of Books (Aaron Swartz's Raw Thought) January 11, 2011
143. 2010 Review of Books (Aaron Swartz's Raw Thought) January 11, 2011
144. Gifting Digital Books — Craig Mod December 28, 2010
145. Mira Kirshenbaum on Relationship Therapy | FiveBooks December 8, 2010
146. Barry Forshaw on Film Noir | FiveBooks November 27, 2010
147. Read to Lead: How to Digest Books Above Your “Level” - RyanHoliday.net November 26, 2010
148. The Library of Babel - Jorge Luis Borges November 19, 2010
149. It suffices that a book be possible for it to exist November 19, 2010
150. Bibliography concerning Warren Buffett November 19, 2010
151. Not Your Parents' Audiobook: David Byrne's "Bicycle Diaries" November 8, 2010
152. The End of the Story - The Believer October 25, 2010
153. It is such a simple thing, but since I started, about three years ago, using… October 20, 2010
154. It’s a poor fellow who can’t take his pleasure without asking other people’s… October 19, 2010
155. Her bottom is so beautiful that once as she crossed the room to the cooler I… October 7, 2010
156. I always assume that a good book is more intelligent than its author September 16, 2010
157. How to open a new book - Boing Boing September 12, 2010
158. When I get a little money, I buy books; and if any is left I buy food… August 24, 2010
159. Jonathan Haidt | FiveBooks August 6, 2010
160. Books Which Have Influenced Me - Robert Louis Stevenson July 6, 2010
161. Where Good Ideas Come From June 7, 2010
162. The Fifty Twentieth-century Works Most Cited in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index April 29, 2010
163. Cassidy had no idea what made Andrea so different, but he could sense that she… April 27, 2010
164. Embracing the digital book — Craig Mod April 21, 2010
165. NEWSPAPER BLACKOUT IS OUT TODAY! April 13, 2010
166. Austin Kleon’s new book of poems, Newspaper Blackout, makes New York… April 5, 2010
167. Spying on how we read « Music Machinery March 28, 2010
168. Why books on the iPad just might work « Snarkmarket March 19, 2010
169. Working: The Graphic Novel - Bryan Caplan | EconLog March 9, 2010
170. Wired for Books : Author interviews on MP3 March 4, 2010
171. Watching The Maltese Falcon last month inspired me to read the original February 17, 2010
172. Ben Casnocha: The Blog: The Paradox of Attitudinal Self-Help Books February 5, 2010
173. Consider David Foster Wallace February 4, 2010
174. Illustration for Pride & Prejudice by C.E January 26, 2010
175. THE WILD KINGDOM by Kevin Huizenga January 16, 2010
176. The Believer - O Biblioklepts! January 4, 2010
177. Division of Labour: Higher education in the 21st Century in a single picture December 8, 2009
178. A book needn’t be an author’s life work; a squib of novel insight… November 23, 2009
179. People Like to Be Educated About Tragedies November 5, 2009
180. Where the Wild Things Are October 20, 2009
181. The Believer - The Codex Seraphinianus October 1, 2009
182. Nancy Pearl's The Rule of 50 September 3, 2009
183. Fifty Books for Our Times | Newsweek.com July 30, 2009
184. Chris Anderson’s Free Contains Apparent Plagiarism June 24, 2009
185. Marginal Revolution: *Create Your Own Economy*, standing on one foot June 23, 2009
186. I find that more and more nonfiction authors are confusing Book Idea with Long… June 1, 2009
187. Infinite Summer May 21, 2009
188. My favorite part from Randy Pausch's book, The Last Lecture January 15, 2009
189. interview with Richard Price in the Believer May 4, 2008
190. interview with Seth and Chris Ware conducted by Ivan Brunetti January 2, 2008
191. Neil Gaiman helped one of his fans propose at a book signing December 16, 2007
192. soon available in paperback October 31, 2006
193. cartoon at the head of the article September 25, 2006