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These timeless essays and nonfiction are filled with wisdom by great writers. Many of these reads are personal and go outside the writer’s genres...

Venice, An Interior, by the brilliant Spanish writer Javier Marías, is a gorgeous and intimate portrait of the hidden Venice....

I loved reading and learning more about David Bowie's favorite books....

Short book reviews of books I have read and consider worth reading....

The film stays with you, but after reading the novel by Tevis, I realized the book is better. ...

The Fun Stuff: and Other Essays by James Wood is one place to fill your literary emptiness....

The NY Times article “Is Fiction Losing it’s Faith,” reminded me of a class I took in college: “The Image of Jesus in Literature.”...

Here are a few of my favorite books that everyone should read. All of them blew me away. ...

The novel is comic and tragic at the same time. It's myth and a Genesis. It is magic realism with all the elements of...