A couple of literary items for those who might have missed them: Chris Vognar took a look at Harvard University Press' New Literary History of America. It's a book, he notes, "As rich as its title is dry." And with...
Time (via GalleyCat) will spend some time on Martha's Vineyard reading Tom Friedman's Hot, Flat and Crowded; David McCullough's John Adams; Richard Price's Lush Life; Kent Haruf's Plain Song and George Pelecanos's The Way Home. The Telegraph has capsule reviews...
Last week, we took a look at now-citizen George W. Bush's reading habits. Today, we can discuss President Barack Obama's tastes, thanks to The New York Times. Here's the nut of the analysis: "Mr. Obama tends to take a magpie...
As first pointed out to me by alert reader Joyce Saenz Harris, Karl Rove has spilled the beans on President Bush's reading habits. He declares: "Mr. Bush's 2006 reading list shows his literary tastes. The nonfiction ran from biographies of...
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