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Morality and Fiction
December 13th, 200905:50 PM ETLast month the National Book Foundation honored Flannery O'Connor, yet again. Each year since 1949 the Foundation has bestowed the National Book Award. Last month, in the fiction category, the Foundation chose the one best book from among the past 60 winners. Voters selected O'Connor's "Complete Stories." As people who care about how stories are ... -
How Should I Read This Novel
November 05th, 200911:53 AM ETI just finished Pat Conroy's new book, South of Broad. When I read Conroy I get so caught up in the language-in the cadence and tempo of it-that I sometimes lose track of story. His style, at least for me, can overwhelm the plot. As a result, I find myself wallowing around in all this glorious construction, content to soak in the beauty of how the ... -
Rational Creatures, Moved by Emotion
September 24th, 200910:47 AM ETArnold Weinstein-the author, scholar, and winsome English professor-brings two fundamental beliefs to his assessment of literature: That feeling is the basic, invisible fact of life. And therefore, the basic but unacknowledged fact of literature. Novels, poetry, and short stories, Weinstein informs his readers, provide a gateway t... -
The Most Social Medium
September 02nd, 200902:03 PM ETMany of us are discouraged by the decline of reading, and what it portends for our society. Novels, poetry, and short stories continually lose ground to lighter fare -- to shallower but more social media, like Facebook and Twitter-where all our friends, real and virtual, can add their own dab to the never-ending conversation. Reading books, on the... -
Reading and Progress
August 01st, 200909:04 AM ETIn his book, Reading Between the Lines, Gene Edward Veith insists that reading books is critical to a thriving culture. Television and movies, Veith claims, if enjoyed to excess, will turn us into an image-dominated society. The Internet, we know, is a medium that's scanned and browsed, but not studied. "Only reading," Veith says, "cultivates a sus...
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