Campaign for the American Reader

The official blog of the Campaign for the American Reader, an independent initiative to encourage more readers to read more books.

Friday, March 23, 2007

Paul Ekman's "Emotions Revealed"

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A second edition of Paul Ekman's Emotions Revealed comes out this spring. I've not read the book (and probably won't), but I h...
Thursday, March 22, 2007

Pg. 99: "Guardian of the Dawn"

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Richard Zimler put his novel Guardian of the Dawn to the Page 99 Test . About the novel , from the publisher: In an age of faith and f...

Benjamin Black's "Christine Falls"

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I finished Christine Falls by Benjamin Black (John Banville's crime-writing pen-name), a couple of weeks ago, yet I keep putting off wr...

And how well did the "Page 69 Test" poll?

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From Mark Sanderson's page at the Telegraph (U.K.): A recent survey in America asked readers what prompted them to buy a book. They c...

Pg. 69: "No Dominion"

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Today's feature at the Page 69 test: Charlie Huston's No Dominion . About the book , from the publisher: Joe Pitt’s life sucks. He h...

Picks of the chicks

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Last week at the Guardian book blog, Diane Shipley wrote in defense of chick lit . Some of her readers, she now writes: didn't entirely...
Wednesday, March 21, 2007

"God's Bits of Wood" and structural racism

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Mari J. Matsuda , Professor of Law at Georgetown University, wrote in with a suggestion, which she "read and loved," for the blog...

Pg. 99: "Snitch Jacket"

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Snitch Jacket "is a thriller packed full of rich situations and even richer characters, and the fact that it is also very funny does no...

Pg. 69: "Made to Stick"

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Today's feature item at the Page 69 Test: Chip Heath and Dan Heath's Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die . About th...

What is Rachel Kadish reading?

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Rachel Kadish , author of the novels From a Sealed Room and Tolstoy Lied: a Love Story , answered my query about her current reading with m...

"Slay Ride," the movie

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Here's the set-up for Chris Grabenstein's Slay Ride : Two weeks before Christmas, Scott Wilkinson goes on a routine business trip. T...
Tuesday, March 20, 2007

Pg. 69: "Lost Echoes"

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Last Monday's feature at the Page 69 Test was Joe R. Lansdale's Lost Echoes . About the book, from the publisher : Since a mysteriou...

What is Pete Anderson reading?

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Lit blogger and short story writer Pete Anderson is author of today's feature at Writers Read . He also wrote a pretty terrific Page 6...

Pg. 69: "Disturbing the Dead"

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Today's feature at the Page 69 Test: Sandra Parshall's just-released Disturbing the Dead . About the book: Tom Bridger, who is half...
Monday, March 19, 2007

Daniel Drezner's new book

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Daniel Drezner has an interesting post at Open University : The Economist was good enough to review my new book All Politics Is Global: Ex...

It was 20 years ago today

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On 19 March, 1987, Ian Rankin got caught in a sudden snow storm walking home from work. He stopped off at his local Tesco to buy a steak and...

Top 10 unhappy endings

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The novelist Richard Gwyn came up with a list of "books in which things end badly" for the Guardian . He suggests that "our...

"Stripped," the movie

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Brian Freeman 's psychological suspense novels feature detectives Jonathan Stride and Serena Dial. Freeman's debut thriller, Immora...

Jon Clinch's "Finn"

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Today's feature at the Page 69 Test: Jon Clinch's highly acclaimed debut novel, Finn . About the book, from the publisher : Jon Clin...
Sunday, March 18, 2007

Pg. 99: Jane Austen's "Persuasion"

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Deidre Lynch , Associate Professor in the Department of English at Indiana University, is the editor of the Oxford World's Classics edit...
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