I had read Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor a few years ago. I remember at the time I thought that the story had some insights into mod...

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851) is most famous for Frankenstein; or The Modern Prometheus . A friend suggested her 1826 novel The L...

I've gathered some quotes from Edwidge Danticat 's collection of essays entitled Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work . ...

Image of folio from Metropolitan Museum of Art Afkham Darbandi & Dick Davis translated from Persian into English  Farid Attar ...

This entry contains some quotes from Bryan Stevenson's Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption . Stevenson is one of the founder...

Günter Grass received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1999 , and his most famous book is Die Blechtrommel , translated into English as T...

The best source for information on Dorothy Day is the Catholic Worker website . These quotes are from the 1981 HarperCollins paperback...

Lucia Graves translated  Carlos Ruiz Zafón 's La Sombra del Viento as The Shadow of the Wind . Nothing feeds forgetfulness better th...

F. Scott Fitzgerald never finished the novel The Last Tycoon . Elia Kazan directed a 1976 movie based on the novel. Amazon produced one se...

From Oscar Wilde 's The Picture of Dorian Gray : [Lord Henry Wotton] pictured to himself with silent amusement the tedious luncheon ...

In the last chapter of Moveable Feast , Ernest Hemingway warns people doing significant things to avoid seduction by the popular, rich an...

Ralph Ellison's The Invisible Man is the best English language novel I've read , IMO. How I've considered myself well-read thi...

Harold Finch from CBS's "Person of Interest" reading It Can't Happen Here The first Sinclair Lewis novel I read (hea...

I listened to a recording of Ernest Hemingway 's A Farewell to Arms . The narrator was Alexander Adams. This passage is near the end and...

I read Caleb Carr's The Alienist for a book club, and I'm almost done with its sequel, The Angel of Darkness . It has some great ma...

The full text of Charles Dickens 's A Tale of Two Cities is available online . I listened to an unabridged performance . The book shoul...

Leonard Levy , in his book  Blasphemy: Verbal Offense Against the Sacred, from Moses to Salman Rushdie , quotes Keith Ward as a person who,...

David McRaney 's book  You Are Not So Smart: Why You Have Too Many Friends on Facebook, Why Your Memory Is Mostly Fiction, and 46 Other ...

In War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning , Chris Hedges  ( Twitter ) explains why the bonds among soldiers are likely comradeship, not frie...

United States National Public Radio's Science Friday Book Club in 2014 read Dune by Frank Herbert . Readers were asked to record t...