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Bookish Diversions: The Puzzle of Publishing

Dueling Takes on the Industry, How the Numbers Really Work, Learning the Trade, Enormous Book Advances, Interview with Yours Truly, More

Apr 27 •

When Poets Speak of Life and Speak in Prose

Reviewing Maya Angelou’s ‘I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings’ and Gwendolyn Brooks’s ‘Maud Martha’

Apr 20 •

Ideas from Outside the Mind

Reviewing Two John Wyndham Sci-Fi Classics, ‘The Chrysalids’ and ‘Chocky’

Apr 17 •

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What Monks Know about Focus

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Bookish Diversions: Do Audiobooks Count?

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Cormac McCarthy’s Sideline: Freelance Copy Editor

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Life Is Too Small Without Books

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Keep or Toss? My Personal Criteria for Culling a Library

Jan 3 • Joel J Miller

‘A Desire to Constantly Learn’

Jan 10 • Joel J Miller

Book Deal? Done. Now I’ve Got 9 Months to Finish Writing

You Guessed It: I’m Writing a Book about Books. Here’s the Backstory.

Apr 13 •

Cormac McCarthy’s Border Trilogy

Reviewing ‘All the Pretty Horses,’ ‘The Crossing,’ and ‘Cities of the Plain’

Apr 10 •

C.S. Lewis: Before Narnia

When We Didn’t Know Jack. Reviewing ‘C.S. Lewis in America’ by Mark Noll

Apr 6 •

Bookish Diversions: Lights, Camera, Bookmarks!

Shōgun, 3 Body Problem, Netflix, J.K. Rowling, TV as Religion, TV as Literature, More

Apr 3 •

What’s My Point? Consider the Pencil

The Evolution of an Underrated Tool, Plus Its Famous Users: Thoreau, Morrison, Dahl, Steinbeck, More

Mar 30 •

When Life Betrays You, Only Love Remains

Reviewing Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer-Winning Novel, ‘The Bridge of San Luis Rey’

Mar 27 •

Bookish Diversions: The Bits We Usually Ignore

Dedications, Acknowledgements, Footnotes, More

Mar 23 •

Sideways Truth: Writing in a Totalitarian Regime

Reviewing ‘Heart Sutra’ and ‘The Day the Sun Died’ by Chinese Novelist Yan Lianke

Mar 20 •

Hunger for Connection: Being Known by Finding Your Voice

Fighting with Words: Reviewing Richard Wright’s Classic Memoir, ‘Black Boy (American Hunger)’

Mar 16 •

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