A.J. Fikry, the title character of Gabrielle Zevin’s slim novel, is a thirty-nine year-old, lonely bookseller at Island Books. He will only stock books which
Category: General Fiction
Philadelphia: A Perpetual Punching Bag
On my way home to Philadelphia from Ocean Springs, Mississippi, I was pleasantly surprised to learn that the book I was reading has ties to
Down the “Rosy” Rabbit Hole: A Practically Pornographic Photo (For 1878)
In describing Theodore Roosevelt’s first picture with his future wife, Alice Hathaway Lee, biographer Edmund Morris writes in the award-winning first volume of his trilogy
Unearthing Historical Truths: Richard III in Fiction and in the Flesh (Well, Bones)
Originally posted on The Misfortune Of Knowing:
Apparently, a woman’s intuition in a parking lot in Leicester, England — a strange feeling she was standing…
An Unexpected Reaction to Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights (1847) is a passionate (though unromantic) book that often evokes strong reactions from its readers. Some people love it; others hate
Heathcliff: A Man or a Devil? (Part II of the Wuthering Heights Read-Along)
I’m still slogging through Emily Brontë’s only novel, Wuthering Heights, published in 1847 and now a classic.* I finished chapters 1 through 9 last week,
The Misfortune Of Knowing 