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Ways of reading

A fan of brevity I enjoyed this neat list on reading from A Working Library (a site that sports one of the finest designs I noted this year). Of the nine pieces of advice one that I’ve only recently taken to heart is this: If a book bores you, or tells you things you already know, […]

The Postmodern Reading List

An impossible task? However, The LA Times takes sixty one novels and labels them as Post Modern after tagging them with a vague consensus of postmodern attributes: the author is a character, fiction and reality are blurred, the text includes fictional artifacts, such as letters, lyrics, even whole other books, and so on. 61 essential postmodern […]