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Keeping Track of Library Books
Let me confess. I love libraries. I love almost everything about them, from the faint smell of dust to the…
Mersey Minis Giveaway: Liverpool 800
Today marks the 800th anniversary of Liverpool's town charter and publisher Capsica is celebrating the event by giving away the…
Winter Blues
Writer and editor Helen Tookey is already predicting the start of autumn and the approach of winter and to make…
The All-new Reader Website
As of today The Reader has a new website, which includes news and information about the magazine, about Reader community…
Links we liked for August 23
I've been away on a Scottish island odyssey for the last couple of weeks, but The Reader's flock of Internet…
William Faulkner and the End of Man
Like James Joyce, William Faulkner has an unjust reputation as a 'difficult' writer. Perhaps for this reason he is relatively…
Upcoming TV Adaptations
Angela Macmillan made contact to point out that the BBC is working on several interesting-looking TV adaptations of eighteenth and…
Philip Roth Discusses Everyman
Philip Roth is one of my favourite writers; he is one of the few writers whose prose seems like it…
Pitmatic
Earlier in the week a dictionary of the lost language of Pitmatic was reviewed in The Guardian. Coming from a…
100 Years On The Road
This year is the 50th anniversary of Jack Kerouac's famous rambling American epic, On The Road, but few people will…
Charles Simic–US Poet Laureate
The Guardian reports that Charles Simic has been named poet laureate of the United States by the Library of Congress.…
Romanian Summer Diary 5
Saturday 28th July--Busy days. The first British contingent taught their lessons, forged friendships, played their quick cricket in bewildered partnership…
