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Reading the Commute

December 23, 2015

Like most writers, I have a day job (a new one that I’m quite enjoying–see previous post). And while I do sometimes work remotely, many days I shuttle back and forth to the office via public transportation. I live two blocks from a Metro stop, which means I spend a lot of time on DC’s… Continue reading »

Books in the Wild

February 15, 2015

This introduces a personal experiment in documenting how we interact with books. First, the context. Literary critics, book historians, publishing types, and cultural spectators and speculators have spent a lot of time of late kicking around “the book” as an idea and as a phenomenon: its past, its hybrid e-and-print present, whether it has a future… Continue reading »

Recent Writing

  • “A paler shade of white”: HAVING AND BEING HAD by Eula Biss (review)
  • “Do We Have Victorians to Thank for Consumerism?”
  • “The Complicated Role of the Modern Public Library”

Recent Posts

  • Q&A: Virginia Festival of the Book Shelf Life
  • Podcast alert: Disentangling the clutter
  • Book event: Virginia Festival of the Book Shelf Life series

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  • Podcast alert: Disentangling the clutter
  • Book event: Virginia Festival of the Book Shelf Life series
  • Interview: “Rising Up With Sonali”
  • Live at East City Bookshop

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