Category Archives: Reading
Review: Gish Jen, Tiger Writing
Here and below is my review of Gish Jen”s Tiger Writing: Art, Culture and the Interdependent Self, published by Harvard University Press in March; it ran in today’s Shelf Awareness for Readers. Gish Jen’s elegant and wide-ranging Tiger Writing–a collection … Continue reading
The Future of Books: An Anecdote
The other day, a friend who is an editor at a large publisher and the parent of a small child came over for coffee. Of course, the talk ran to books. “How many did you get rid of when you … Continue reading
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