Barbarians no Bibliotheca!

from The Free Press Niall Ferguson: Without Books We Will Be Barbarians It is not the road to serfdom that awaits—but the steep downward slope to the status of a peasant in ancient Egypt. By Niall Ferguson “WHAT RAY BRADBURY FAILED TO ANTICIPATE IS THAT HIS NATIVE...

Bawdy Buscemi

from Page Six Steve Buscemi leaves Austin Butler in stitches with naughty ‘fart-filled’ erotic letter By Carlos Greer Steve Buscemi read dirty love letters by James Joyce. Jaycen Blackwell @beyondyouphotograph The “Wednesday” star had a crowd at a sexy Brooklyn event,...

Auto-fiction Frey

from Érudit Engagement with “Real Readers and James Frey’s A Million Little Pieces: Autofiction as a Reading Strategy and the Mediating Role of Authenticity” by Melina Ghasseminejad dd Henrik Zetterberg-NielsenAarhus Universitynorhn@cc.au.dk It is an honor for me to...

Cormac’s Library

from Smithsonian Magazine Two Years After Cormac McCarthy’s Death, Rare Access to His Personal Library Reveals the Man Behind the Myth The famously reclusive novelist amassed a collection of thousands of books ranging in topics from philosophical treatises to advanced...