A bookless American library
Why can’t I find a copy of Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five at a local public library? I’m wandering through the aisles of bookshelves thinking, It’s not an obscure title. Is it? Earlier, I visited […]
Category Archives: reading
On summer or winter in books and writing
“Do you prefer Summer or Winter in books and writing?” asks blogger Lea At Sea. What do you think? I had to think about that for a while. I finished a few […]
The English novel versus the American novel
Which do you prefer, the English novel or the American novel? I’ve been thinking about that after reading some of Ian McEwan’s and Barbara Kingsolver’s books. Maybe it is the difference in the […]
Literary reading series continues at Posana Cafe this weekend
Saturday night, March 17, 6:00 p.m. at Posana Cafe in downtown Asheville, NC. The literary reading features writer Elizabeth Lutyens and poet Tina Barr. From a press release: Elizabeth Lutyens teaches the Prose […]
Illiteracy in America
44 million adults in the U.S. can’t read well enough to read a simple story to a child. National Adult Literacy Survey (via firstbook)
Poetrio at Malaprop’s
The monthly poetry reading series Poetrio continues Sunday, March 4, 2012, 3:00 p.m. at Malaprop’s Bookstore/Café. The March Poetrio features Megan Volpert with SONICS IN WARHOLIA, Rupert Fike with LOTUS […]
Literary Reading at Posana Café
Later this week, a literary reading featuring Catherine Reid and Valerie Neiman. February 18, 2012, at Posana Cafe, at 7:30 p.m. Catherine Reid is the author of COYOTE: SEEKING THE HUNTER IN OUR […]
Juniper Bends Literary Reading
This week the Juniper Bends reading series continues this Friday, February 10th, at 7:00 p.m. at Downtown Books and News. The event features readings by: Kate Zambreno, Katherine Soniat, Jesse […]
“Maybe it’s not about the happy ending…”
‘Maybe it’s not about the happy ending…’ (via sunnysideeeee) (Source: http://sayingimages.tumblr.com/)
Quote: “The connection a reader seeks with a book…”
The connection a reader seeks with a book, it seems to me, is a connection that is felt, or experienced, unconsciously. —Donald Antrim, BOMB 58, 1997
