By request, and in the hopes of doing some small part to ease the struggles of great bookstores like Powell’s, here is an incomplete list of books and essays I enjoyed this year: Fiction: Richard Price’s Lush Life, Aleksandar Hemon’s The Lazarus Project, Marilynne Robinson’s Home, Claire Keegan’s Walk the Blue Fields, Julia Leigh’s Disquiet, Amara Lakhous’ Clash of Civilizations . . .
David Foster Wallace’s thesis, his one formal, systematic contribution to the world of ideas, is unpublished & remains largely unknown.
Inspired by the Depression-era Federal Writers’ Project, Weiland and Wilsey decided to create their own version of the WPA state guides.
This year I joined the Board of Directors at Girls Write Now, an amazing organization that pairs talented at-risk teen girls with mentors — authors and journalists — who meet with them regularly one-on-one and support their writing. What impresses me most is that the girls go on to college. So these mentoring relationships have the power to change the . . .
How will Google Book Search’s searchable magazine archives affect paid aggregators like Lexis-Nexis?