James Joyce’s “The Dead”
Old Books for Cold Weather
“A ghostly light from the street lamp lay in a long shaft from one window to the door. Gabriel threw his overcoat and hat on a couch and crossed the room towards the window. He looked down into the street in order that his emotion might calm a little.”
“The First Snowfall” by Guy de Maupassant
Old Books for Cold Weather
“The long promenade of La Croisette winds in a curve along the edge of the blue water. Yonder, to the right, Esterel juts out into the sea in the distance, obstructing the view and shutting out the horizon with its pretty southern outline of pointed summits, numerous and fantastic.”
The 50 Biggest Literary Stories of the Year: 15 to 6
Counting Down the Year That Was, One Story at a Time
5 Books Making News This Week: Britons, Physics, and Photographs
Jane Austen, John Le Carre, Adam Kirsch, and More
The Unheralded Monk Who Turned His Small Town into a Center of Publishing
Martin Luther: Revolutionary Disruptor and Start-Up Success Story
The 50 Biggest Literary Stories of the Year: 25 to 16
Counting Down the Year That Was, One Story at a Time
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
Old Books for Cold Weather
“I spent the following day roaming through the valley. I stood beside the sources of the Arveiron, which take their rise in a glacier, that with slow pace is advancing down from the summit of the hills to barricade the valley.”
The Deep Obsessions of the Nonfiction Writer
Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz Shares Her Five Favorite Fellow Obsessive Writers
The 50 Biggest Literary Stories of the Year: 35 to 26
Counting Down the Year That Was, One Story at a Time
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