From a 1974 interview between James Day and “Wally” Stegner. The whole thing is fascinating, but the really good stuff starts at about the ...

"When someone asks, “Which three books have meant the most to you?” I can answer without having to think: The Great Gatsby , Dosto...

“After Shakespeare, my favorite poet is Dante. My favorite novelists are Proust and Tolstoy, closely followed by Scott Fitzgerald, a...

On the Fiftieth Anniversary of Robert Frost’s death, the Christian Science Monitor has dug up an old Top 10 list that he provided to t...

A continuation of yesterday’s theme, from The Paris Review’s Art of Fiction #207 : INTERVIEWER What books were you reading in t...

INTERVIEWER Do you read your contemporaries? FAULKNER No, the books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young...

Most people who come across this photo of Marilyn Monroe reading Ulysses   are bound to have one of two reactions. If you’re the kindl...

“My own books I packed up in cases and sat on them, or dined on them. Books in a colony play a different part in your existence from wh...

Alright. I imagine some of you may have turned your noses up at yesterday’s post simply because you can’t appreciate the awesomeness that ...

"Riding a freight train out of El Paso, I had my first contact with the Little Blue Books. Another hobo was reading one, and when he f...

"Night after night I’d lie in bed, with a glass of milk and a package of oatmeal cookies beside me, and read one paperback after an...

“In those days there was no money to buy books. I borrowed books from the rental library of Shakespeare & Company, which was the lib...