Take it to the mat, and bring some books with you
Sal Robinson
Can you wrestle and read at the same time? Better still, can you make a wrestler read? As if America’s youth did not have enough challenges facing them, WrestleMania has… Read more »
Can you wrestle and read at the same time? Better still, can you make a wrestler read? As if America’s youth did not have enough challenges facing them, WrestleMania has… Read more »
In the American Prospect, Harold Myerson considers the legacy of Alex Cockburn, who died last Friday at 71, by revisiting his peculiar reaction to the demolition of Pantheon Books in… Read more »
Amazon announced its quarterly numbers yesterday, and it was an old story, best repeated by David Streitfeld in a report for the New York Times: Leaping revenue, little profit. That… Read more »
Let’s start with the facts: you read books. According to NEA surveys, about half of americans do not. But you are reading these very words on the website of a… 4 / Read more »
Earlier this week the New York Times ran an article about an event for book nerds that, frankly, sounds like a lot of fun. Rare Book School is held several… Read more »
Phil Ochs, folkie, counter-culture icon, whinnying witty crooner and occasional madcap drunkard, penned a prodigious amount of songs — many of them alliterative — during the 1960s and early 70s.… Read more »
The People’s Library of Occupy Wall Street observe that books have played a crucial role in the OWS. As they write on their Facebook page: Books have become a key… Read more »