Tag Archives: reading

Why I Read

This is just to let you know that my new book, Why I Read: The Serious Pleasure of Books, is out today from Farrar, Straus & Giroux. I feel a bit abashed at tooting my own horn, but if I … Continue reading

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Under the Influence of Jane Jacobs

You can never predict, when you read them the first time, which are the books that will most enduringly affect your future behavior. I am and have always been an essentially literary person, and if you had asked me to … Continue reading

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