A Brief Argument for Short Books
7 Reasons to Love Short Books—Plus 16 Slender Specimens to Try on for Size
I like big books (and I cannot lie).1 But I also love short books and generally believe an author who serves the world something both complete and compact has done our entire species a wonderful service.
It’s not that hulking, sprawling tomes are inherently problematic. Like seemingly everyone and their Aunt Sally I recently read Middlemarch (nearly 800 p…
