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Serious Reading Was Always a Minority Sport
Rumors of the Book’s Demise Misunderstand Who Really Reads to Begin With
May 9
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’A Small Rebellion Against the Machine’
Poet Seth Wieck on Writing in the Margins, Memorizing Verse Behind the Wheel, and His Debut Collection ‘Call Out Coyote’
May 6
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Books: Everybody’s Favorite Magical Machine
An Interview You’ll Love, or so I Suspect
May 4
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Tour My New Book, ‘The Idea Machine’
An Imaginary Exhibit: The Big Idea, Engines of Progress, Self-Creation, Generative AI, More
Nov 22, 2025
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Who Really Wrote Philip K. Dick’s Best Novel?
A 3,000-Year-Old Algorithm, ‘The Man in the High Castle,’ and the Question That Won’t Go Away
May 2
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No, Books Are Not Remotely Too Expensive
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How Do You Organize 3,000 Books? Touring My Personal Library
Jun 29, 2024
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Against Paul Kingsnorth’s ‘Against the Machine’
Nov 22, 2025
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What Monks Know about Focus
Mar 9, 2024
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Who Killed the Book Review?
Newspaper Book Coverage Is Dying, but Don’t Hold a Funeral for Literary Culture
Apr 29
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The Best Novel You’ll Ever Read About Cockfighting
Probably the Only One, Too. But Don’t Miss Charles Willeford’s 1972 Underground Classic, ‘Cockfighter’
Apr 25
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Bookish Diversions: Why Read Shakespeare?
First Folio, Universal Appeal, Teaching Shakespeare in School, but Shakespeare Wasn’t Even Shakespeare, Right?
Apr 22
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No, Books Are Not Remotely Too Expensive
Let’s Explore a Little Math
Apr 18
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Bookish Diversions: Anything Better than a Bookshop?
Just a Great Big Post About the Wonderful World of Bookstores: Big Ones, Little Ones, Running One, and Why They Matter. Plus, I Introduce You to the…
Apr 15
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Unpredictable Futures: Bonhoeffer and Bots
With Poets Training Generative AI, It’s Worth Asking: What Makes Us Human?
Apr 13
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I Finally Finished ‘The Brothers Karamazov’
Then I Picked a Fight with Myself About What It Means
Apr 11
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Bookish Diversions: The Point of Poetry? Slow Down
Out of Fashion, Lyrical Labor, Phillis Wheatley, Poetry’s Psychology, Smoking Dante, More
Apr 8
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No One Utters Fopdoodle with Their Dignity Intact
English Is a Circus: 109 Words too Goofy for the Machines, Helpfully Compiled with the Aid of Those Machines
Apr 6
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