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NY Diary 3: Thomas Hardy’s ‘I look into my glass’
Phil reciting 'I look into my glass' by Thomas Hardy in Sarge's Deli 548 3rd Avenue. Not Large's - Sarges!…
NY Diary 2: Of Unicorns and Mary Poppins
Reader editor Philip Davis has been in New York promoting his new book, a biography of Bernard Malamud. He has…
Mersey Minis Launch: Number 5, Leaving
Fans of the popular diminutive book series Mersey Minis--mentioned here before--will be pleased to hear about the launch of book…
Links We Liked for October 30, 2007
This week's Links We Liked has the smell of the scriptorium. First up is an amazing post about a robot…
Vote For Books
Jane Davis, Director of The Reader organisation exhorts us to Vote For Books in the Radio 3 People's Choice, part…
NY Diary 1: Lint
Featuring Reader editor Philip Davis on 6th Avenue with our Spy from NY, Enid Stubin, she removing the lint from…
Recommended Reads: Megan Abbott’s Die A Little
Megan Abbott. Die A Little Simon and Schuster, 2005. Nineteen-fifties Hollywood has a seedy glamour that, half a century later,…
Book At Breakfast Invitation 10th and 11th November
The Reader in association with BBC Radio 3 is running two "Book at Breakfast" events on 10th and 11th November…
So Spirited a Town: Visions and Versions of Liverpool
Nicholas Murray, author of, among other things, biographies of Bruce Chatwin, Franz Kafka, and Mathew Arnold, writes about his book…
Featured Poem: The Sun Rising
Today's featured poem is John Donne's 'The Sun Rising', which really needs no introduction other than to say that on…
27 Links: Links from Reader 27 on Ian McEwan’s Saturday
Raymond Tallis's article on Ian McEwan's Saturday in issue 27 of The Reader magazine addresses the issue of implausibility in…
Recommended Reads Round-Up
The Reader magazine has always prided itself on being the magazine to turn to when you don't know what to…
