What I'm Looking Forward to Reading

August, 2009

On the Road in Willa Cather Territory

by Jane Ciabattari | Aug-27-2009

Driving from eastern Wyoming’s arid 9000-foot Rocky Mountain plateau to the humid green expanse of western Nebraska creates a sort of culture shock. Five...read »

On the Road in Laramie

by Jane Ciabattari | Aug-25-2009

Still on the road, my antidote to 2009 so far, I’m driving I-80 from Sonoma County to New York City, stopping when I feel like it overnight, reading whatever...read »

On the Road in Rock Springs

by Jane Ciabattari | Aug-23-2009

I’m driving east from the Pacific to the Atlantic this week. I left Wells, Nevada, a sad town halfway to ghosting with closed-down casinos and motels Saturday...read »

Guest Post by Lauren Elkin: What I’m Reading in Hong Kong

by Jane Ciabattari | Aug-20-2009

Lauren Elkin sends this report from Hong Kong: I had the best of intentions when I packed my books for this summer in Hong Kong, where my partner has just...read »

Guest Post: What Stephen Burt Has Been, Will Be, or Perhaps Should Not Be Reading

by Craig Morgan Teicher | Aug-13-2009

Stephen Burt (see bio below) recently told us about his summer reading: I’m one of those people who read ten to fifteen books, not “at once,” which would...read »

What Are You Looking Forward to Reading, Daniel Mendelsohn?

by Eric Banks | Aug-05-2009

This summer I’ve been doing something I’ve always wanted to do, which is to listen to Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire on my iPod. I’ve...read »

July, 2009

What Are You (Looking Forward to) Reading, David Lehman?

by Craig Morgan Teicher | Jul-29-2009

Like other busy people I tend to read more during the summer, though rarely do I take on one big project (every Shax play, all of Musil’s The Man Without...read »

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