BEING A LITERARY snob -- the kind of guy who, for instance, boycotts any bookstore that has the gall to besmirch the memory of Wallace Stegner by having Danielle Steel rub spines with him on the ...
Anthony Burgess once said, “The kind of book that sells by the million rarely imparts to its readers the sense of epiphany.” In the 21st century, Burgess would promptly be labelled a ‘literary snob’ ...
Despite a narrative richly filled with new worlds, exotic creatures, and impossible travel over vast distances, a new study claims that science fiction novels trigger “poorer overall reading”, but ...
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Job 20:27: And the Heavens will expose his iniquity, and the Earth will rise up against him. In the Kimberley, the red battlements ...
Suresh is comfortable with self-deprecation — “I am a bit of a literary snob” — but has strong ideas about reading that he isn’t apologetic about. “You start reading indiscriminately before you start ...
The last time you participated in a book club, you ended up frantically searching the Interwebs an hour before it met for the Cliffs Notes version of David McCullough’s 700-page snoozer, John Adams.