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Pew E-book Survey: 20 Percent of U.S. Is Reading Electronically
Seeded on Thu Apr 5, 2012 11:53 PM EDT ()
One in five Americans read an e-book within the past year. About 43 percent of American adults say that they have either read a book or other long-form content (magazines, journals, or news stories) in the past year on an e-reader, a tablet, a computer or a cellphone. And 28 pe …
'O.J. Is Innocent And I Can Prove It': In New Book, P.I. William Dear Claims O.J. Simpson's Son Was The Killer
Seeded on Wed Apr 4, 2012 8:44 PM EDT (The Huffington Post)
It's often said that the only certainties in life are death and taxes. But you can add "rehashing of the O.J. Simpson case" to that list -- at least for the last 18 years. So it should come as no surprise that a new book has been published about the 1994 murders of Simpson's e …
White House Burning: Putting Out the Wrong Fire (Book Review)
Seeded on Sun Apr 1, 2012 7:49 AM EDT (The Huffington Post)
The basic thesis of White House Burning is that the country is on an unsustainable fiscal path. Unlike some of the Chicken Littles leading the budget debate, Johnson and Kwak are responsible in how they lay out the case. There is no nonsense about runaway government spending. T …
American Dreams: 'Babbitt' by Sinclair Lewis
Seeded on Tue Mar 27, 2012 7:33 PM EDT ()
If only we had a man like George F. Babbitt today. Sinclair Lewis's satirical 1922 novel Babbitt became a national phenomenon. Nathaniel Rich says its comedy is still profound when read today.
American Dreams: 1912, The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man
Seeded on Tue Feb 21, 2012 11:23 AM EST ()
American Dreams: 1912, ‘The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man’ In the second installment of the American Dreams series, Nathaniel Rich reads a seminal African-American novel about crossing the color line, The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man by James Weldon Jo …
Gary Marcus, Professor at N.Y.U., Picks Up a Guitar
Seeded on Thu Jan 26, 2012 12:53 AM EST (The New York Times)
At 13, an age when most boys want to learn the guitar, Gary Marcus, decided he wanted to be a scientist.
American Dreams: Brewster's Millions and Triumphant America (Book Review)
Seeded on Wed Jan 25, 2012 6:42 AM EST ()
Six weeks later McCutcheon submitted a manuscript. It was the story of a young man named Monty Brewster who, in order to inherit $7 million, must spend $1 million in a single year. There are, however, strings attached.
American Dreams: The 20th Century in Novels
Seeded on Wed Jan 25, 2012 6:38 AM EST ()
This monthly series will chronicle the history of the American century as seen through the eyes of its novelists. The goal is to create a literary anatomy of the last century—or, to be precise, from 1900 to 2012.
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