reading

168 posts

1. To survive our high-speed society, cultivate 'temporal bandwidth' July 3, 2018
2. News-Adjacent Reading May 1, 2018
3. We Are What We Repeatedly Do January 30, 2018
4. Paris Review - William Gibson, The Art of Fiction No. 211 January 4, 2017
5. Guillermo del Toro's Twitter book recommendations (with tweets) · tehgort · Storify June 12, 2016
6. Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less February 16, 2016
7. Basin and Range February 9, 2016
8. Out Stealing Horses February 8, 2016
9. Aurora January 3, 2016
10. Target in the Night December 30, 2015
11. The Man Who Knew Too Much December 29, 2015
12. Equilateral December 22, 2015
13. When Popular Fiction Isn’t Popular: Genre, Literary, and the Myths of Popularity | Electric Literature December 15, 2015
14. The Book of Strange New Things November 25, 2015
15. Beautiful Mutants / Swallowing Geography November 24, 2015
16. Out of Sight September 20, 2015
17. Selfish July 26, 2015
18. Koji Kondo’s Super Mario Bros. Soundtrack July 21, 2015
19. The Girl on the Train July 12, 2015
20. Reading War and Peace on my iPhone July 9, 2015
21. Euphoria July 5, 2015
22. Gluyas Williams June 24, 2015
23. Dark Places June 18, 2015
24. Train Dreams June 16, 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. Super Sad True Love Story October 19, 2014
54. Gone Girl October 17, 2014
55. Dirty Love September 30, 2014
56. Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life September 28, 2014
57. How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe August 29, 2014
58. Sacred Hoops August 24, 2014
59. Emily Dickinson: Selected Poems August 19, 2014
60. Definitely Maybe August 17, 2014
61. Flush August 8, 2014
62. All the Pretty Horses August 6, 2014
63. Manhunts: A Philosophical History August 5, 2014
64. The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel August 4, 2014
65. Solaris July 24, 2014
66. The Golden Spruce July 20, 2014
67. Duplex July 2, 2014
68. The Obstacle Is the Way June 22, 2014
69. The Left Hand of Darkness June 22, 2014
70. Tumble Home June 20, 2014
71. Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief June 14, 2014
72. Let’s Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste June 9, 2014
73. The Interrogative Mood June 7, 2014
74. Magic Hours June 6, 2014
75. Robin Sloan'€™s Book Bag: Five Science Fiction Books That Matter October 1, 2013
76. Lynda Barry: The 20 stages of reading September 17, 2013
77. An Impossible Number of Books: Matthew L. Jockers's "Macroanalysis" - August 30, 2013
78. Does reading have a future? A noted Canadian philosopher gazes into the future May 29, 2013
79. Why it’s ok to buy books and not read them April 19, 2013
80. I am not a scholar April 17, 2013
81. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy on an e-reader March 29, 2013
82. How to read a book March 14, 2013
83. Meet the Flannery O’Connor of the Internet age - Salon.com January 31, 2013
84. Literature is Eucharistic January 23, 2013
85. Everybody talks about the writer’s feeling and expression January 23, 2013
86. Favorite books of 2012 January 8, 2013
87. The Millions : My New Year’s Resolution: Read Fewer Books January 5, 2013
88. This is what RSS is for these days January 4, 2013
89. What I Read, 2007-2012 December 30, 2012
90. Secret Reading Lives, Revealed - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education December 27, 2012
91. Joe Queenan: My 6,128 Favorite Books - WSJ.com October 25, 2012
92. Summer Reading… and Programming July 29, 2012
93. The Millions: The Stockholm Syndrome Theory of Long Novels July 11, 2012
94. Forms, styles, and structures should change like skirt lengths July 11, 2012
95. The other side of the class and educational divide July 9, 2012
96. The novels we know best have an architecture July 9, 2012
97. The Four Deadly Fallacies, Pathetic and Otherwise June 21, 2012
98. Wehr in the World: 30+ hours of TV later... April 22, 2012
99. Newsstand Sophisticate: Rereading April 20, 2012
100. How Do You Make Life-Changing Decisions? | RyanHoliday.net April 3, 2012
101. God with magnificent irony / gives me at once both books and night March 25, 2012
102. n 1: Listening to Books March 9, 2012
103. Frank Chimero - Library March 2, 2012
104. A peculiar exercise from early in my fiction-writing career March 1, 2012
105. Me, Reading: In the Mind of a Subway Reader - The New Yorker January 31, 2012
106. The Authenticity Hoax (review) January 29, 2012
107. Meditations (review) January 9, 2012
108. How American food got so bad — Marginal Revolution December 15, 2011
109. A Private Library Is a Universal Legacy Pretending to Be Individual November 29, 2011
110. The Millions : Nobody Hearts L.A.: A Personal Los Angeles Canon September 14, 2011
111. The syllabus to an English class at Rutgers September 5, 2011
112. An able reader often discovers in other men’s writings perfections beyond… August 29, 2011
113. Forgotten but Not Gone - Guernica July 4, 2011
114. BPS Research Digest: The books and journal articles all psychologists should read May 10, 2011
115. Wehr in the World: Introducing my new book-thingy: 446ish* Ideas** Worth***… March 28, 2011
116. Before we learned to tell stories, we learned to read them March 3, 2011
117. Marginal Revolution: The quality of fiction vs. the quality of non-fiction March 3, 2011
118. Marginal Revolution: In praise of picture books January 25, 2011
119. The Simple Art of Murder - Raymond Chandler January 15, 2011
120. Our Psychic Living Room: Why It's Particularly Important to Read David Foster Wallace - TCR January 15, 2011
121. Raymond Chandler - The Simple Art of Murder January 15, 2011
122. Our Psychic Living Room: Why It's Particularly Important to Read David Foster Wallace - TCR January 15, 2011
123. 2010 Review of Books (Aaron Swartz's Raw Thought) January 11, 2011
124. 2010 Review of Books (Aaron Swartz's Raw Thought) January 11, 2011
125. There are two ways of walking through a wood January 6, 2011
126. Gifting Digital Books — Craig Mod December 28, 2010
127. Mira Kirshenbaum on Relationship Therapy | FiveBooks December 8, 2010
128. What I've been reading, vol. iv November 29, 2010
129. Barry Forshaw on Film Noir | FiveBooks November 27, 2010
130. Read to Lead: How to Digest Books Above Your “Level” - RyanHoliday.net November 26, 2010
131. Jodie Foster goes to college :: rogerebert.com November 20, 2010
132. It suffices that a book be possible for it to exist November 19, 2010
133. It is such a simple thing, but since I started, about three years ago, using… October 20, 2010
134. What I've been reading, vol. iii September 28, 2010
135. Constraint in everyday life September 27, 2010
136. I always assume that a good book is more intelligent than its author September 16, 2010
137. How to open a new book - Boing Boing September 12, 2010
138. Jonathan Haidt | FiveBooks August 6, 2010
139. A few weeks with my iPad July 13, 2010
140. Books Which Have Influenced Me - Robert Louis Stevenson July 6, 2010
141. The need to diet, which we know so well in relation to food, and which runs so… June 3, 2010
142. The Fifty Twentieth-century Works Most Cited in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index April 29, 2010
143. Embracing the digital book — Craig Mod April 21, 2010
144. What I've been reading, vol. ii April 13, 2010
145. SYDNEY, Australia—An office worker on Pitt Street Mall reads a book during… April 7, 2010
146. Vocabulary and the reading diet April 6, 2010
147. Spying on how we read « Music Machinery March 28, 2010
148. The public does not like bad literature March 22, 2010
149. Why books on the iPad just might work « Snarkmarket March 19, 2010
150. The Believer - O Biblioklepts! January 4, 2010
151. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (review: 5/5) October 14, 2009
152. Nancy Pearl's The Rule of 50 September 3, 2009
153. Fifty Books for Our Times | Newsweek.com July 30, 2009
154. David Foster Wallace Reads “Laughing with Kafka” July 14, 2009
155. Will Smith: The Keys to Life = Running & Reading July 4, 2009
156. Infinite Summer May 21, 2009
157. Deciding whether to read a book August 27, 2008
158. How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read (review: 3/5) April 9, 2008
159. Shakespeare in the Bush April 8, 2008
160. Tony Danza Reads “The Barber’s Unhappiness” February 29, 2008
161. Cloze, reading, learning, life December 29, 2007
162. Reader and writer are in jail together November 23, 2007
163. Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader (5/5) November 18, 2007
164. Reading Comics: How Graphic Novels Work and What They Mean (review: 4/5) November 11, 2007
165. Undisciplined reading November 1, 2007
166. Michael Rogers questions the future value of reading September 24, 2006
167. collection of a couple thousand posters from our dearly-departed USSR July 26, 2006
168. Advertising Has Forgotten How to Be Subtle July 25, 2006