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BBC Free Thinking Festival: A Festival of Ideas
Free Thinking 07, BBC Radio 3 and BBC Radio Merseyside's unique festival of ideas launches in Liverpool this Friday (November…
What Should I Read Next?
If you're the kind of person who dithers over what to read next features like Amazon's recommendations and 'People who…
The Digital Library
Anthony Grafton's article 'Future Reading' which features in this week's New Yorker has created something of a stir. Its basic…
Writers’ Homes at Risk
Over the past year or so The Rap Sheet, the crime fiction blog of January Magazine has been covering the…
NY Diary 5: Chicago
I flew from New York to Chicago to visit Literature For All Of Us and stayed one night at the…
The Reader Magazine: Special Offers
Here at The Reader organisation, we don't really like to do things in a conventional manner. So instead of having…
NY Diary 4: Beautiful bookshop Middlemarch reader recites lines from the novel…
In Grand Central Station we went into the bookshop and when I finally made my way to the counter to…
Stubin’s Guide to Healthy Eating: Pickles
The Reader New York editor Enid 'Sparrow' Stubin on Pickles: ‘As far as Jewish cuisine goes, sour pickles are a…
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…