“This week I have been reminded time and again of the experience that literature brings to life. You would think that in this 11th hour of holiday hubbub, shoppers would be frantic to buy whatever books remain on the shelf. But no, the readers who are giving books as gifts are very particular about the [...]
We don’t want bookstores to die. Authors need them, and so do neighborhoods. So let’s mount a book-buying splurge. Get your friends together, go to your local bookstore and have a book-buying party. Buy the rest of your Christmas presents, but that’s just for starters. Clear out the mysteries, wrap up the histories, beam up [...]
We need to have literature in translation because we need the widest possible diversity of work available for people to fall in love with…. We consume delicious foods from around the world. Why shouldn’t we consume delicious literature from around the world? –Alane Salierno Mason, senior editor at W.W. Norton and founder of Words Without [...]
“I believe that reading deserves a dedicated device. For people who are readers, reading is important to them. And you don’t want to read for three hours on a backlit LCD screen. It’s great for short form. This is a really important point–that we humans co-evolve with our tools. We change the tools, and the [...]
“Predatory pricing is a means of driving other booksellers out of business. When this happens, the choice of books is one of the first things to suffer. Some readers think that if their favorite store closes they can always buy the book they want somewhere else. But that’s a dangerous delusion–the books they want may [...]
“Well, I own a bookstore, and when kids come into contact with books, I see them loving them. But I think we have to be a little more passionate about getting books to children–which includes putting books in our own hands. I see a lot of parents not reading, but instead spending hours and hours [...]
“We don’t want bookstores to die. Authors need them, and so do neighborhoods. So let’s mount a book-buying splurge. Get your friends together, go to your local bookstore and have a book-buying party. Buy the rest of your Christmas presents, but that’s just for starters. Clear out the mysteries, wrap up the histories, beam up [...]
“More than a building that houses books and data, the library has always been a window to a larger world–a place where we’ve always come to discover big ideas and profound concepts that help move the American story forward. . . . “Libraries remind us that truth isn’t about who yells the loudest, but who [...]
“Books, inherently, require faith. Faith in an author that he or she will reward the many hours you’ll spend in those pages, faith that a good story will be told, a lesson will be learned, a light will be shone upon a dim corner of the world. If you’re reading this magazine, with its vast [...]
“Science has proved that reading books activates brain cells and hundreds of people are book addicts and the Internet can not replace books as there is no continuity in reading something on Internet. At the same time, reading on the Internet requires electricity, which is a problem in Pakistan, and books have a longer life, [...]
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