A couple choice excerpts from Abbey’s The Monkey Wrench Gang : “They roared down the high-centered road, bristly blackbrush and spiny...

"During my trip to Ilium and to points beyond—a two-week expedition bridging Christmas—I let a poor poet named Sherman Krebbs have...

Glad you asked: Everything about that behemoth was an anachronism—hand choke, starter button on the floor, a switch instead of a key, ...

At the suggestion of the one and only Tucker McCann , I am working my way through Wallace Stegner’s last novel,  Crossing to Safety . ...

-copyright Hanna Lippmann , Berlin The New Yorker’s got a story by T. Coraghessan Boyle up for free. The ending isn’t much to write ...

"There is something memorable in the experience to be had by going into a fair ground that stands at the edge of a Middle Wester...

It’s been a while since I finished Ben Lerner’s Leaving the Atocha Station , but that doesn’t mean I’m through with it yet. I flipped...

For all the attention Catch-22 gets for being a "hardee har har," laugh-a-minute, military  satire, I think Joseph Heller of...

I’ve just about got this beautiful book out of my system, but here are a few lines I highlighted along the way. All emphasis is mine: ...

"From my apartment I would walk down the Calle de las Huertas, nodding to the street cleaners in their lime-green jumpsuits, cross El ...

When you stop to think about it, there’s really no better way to put yourself in the Christmas spirit than to read about poor tene...

-image source "While Katie was arguing with the movers, Johnny took Francie up to the roof. She saw a whole new world. Not far...

"To Denys Finch-Hatton I owe what was, I think, the greatest, the most transporting pleasure of my life on the farm: I flew with hi...

“Election Day seemed the greatest holliday of all to Francie. It, more than any other time, belonged to the whole neighborhood. Maybe p...

"The road through the orange earth of north Georgia passed an old, three-story house with a thin black child hanging out of every ...

"…and inside hung an insurance agency calendar and another for an auto parts store. Also on the walls were the Gettysburg Address...

Tonight I’ll be making the rounds with my 2 nd grade Harry Potter, kindergarten Cinderella and pre-school spiderman, reminding them to...

We’ve still got some folks weighing in on “ Wakefield ” a day or two later (I told you it was a long one,) so I thought I’d share a fe...

There are few words to describe how bad that floral print shirt is in combination with the bus driver's vest, but what does Jeffrey E...

I’m not going to review Ray Bradbury’s Dandelion Wine ,  because we’re in negotiations with that book for a very special episode of Liter...