
“Exquisite in both story and sentence, the Anne books built me as a reader, which is to say: they built me.”Sarah Mesle on "Anne of Green Gables"


“Race for the Prize: On Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland”
April 5th, 2013
“Rowling Keeps It Real: On "The Casual Vacancy"”
March 1st, 2013
“Revolution Come and Gone: On K Records”
January 13th, 2013
“The Re-readability of E.F. Benson”
December 27th, 2012
“The Real Yu: On Charles Yu's "Sorry Please Thank You"”
November 29th, 2012



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