THE READING APE

We're now down to four left in the 2011 Tournament of Books . Let's see how we got down from eight... _____________________________...

Lacy Simons , manager of Rock City Books & Coffee in Rockport, Maine, is trying to buy the store from her retiring employer but finds h...

I wrote about Jennifer Egan's A Visit from the Goon Squad last summer, and now that it's out in paperback, I thought I would re-run...

After my stellar week one performance, my match predictions for week two went directly into the proverbial tank. That's bad for my brack...

I'm not sure if I've never noticed it or if my recent reading is somehow skewed, but I am struck by the number of rapes and/or kidna...

Literary links from the week that was.... ______________________________ "After all, what good does this access do if we can only find...

The first week of the 2011 Tournament of Books has come and gone. While there were no real shockers, that doesn't mean there weren'...

I probably never would have picked up Jaimy Gordon's Lord of Misrule had it not won the National Book Award, but, thankfully, it did. M...

And we're back with the odds for the second half of the field in the 2011 Tournament of Books (if you missed  the first installment, th...