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By Teresa Pham-Carsillo For as long as I could remember, I had a fantasy of being in a position of concentrated solitude, able at last… Read More »The Price Is Loneliness: Reimagining the Fantasy of Writing in Solitude

By Rebecca Ruth Gould I have nothing against sleep. As Blanchot said, sleep transforms night into possibility. But in order to appreciate the possibilities created… Read More »One Who Keeps the Night Alive: Poetry for Insomniacs by Marina Tsvetaeva and Hafez

By Debra Moffatt For pleasure and purpose, I often have multiple books on the go, alternating back and forth between my current novel choice and… Read More »Bridges: Connecting Anxious People by Fredrik Backman and Almost Everything by Anne Lamott

By Molly Roden Winter More than Stewart, my new boyfriend Nik was like my father. Nik had an air of impeccability about him. Nik was… Read More »The Soul of a New Machine: Sharing a Book—and a Secret—with My Dad

By Clare Diston I still haven’t read the last book my granddad ever gave me. I have tried on a few occasions, opening it up… Read More »Waiting to Read Venice by Jan Morris

By Yunya Yang I started reading The Catcher in the Rye at Atlanta Airport, waiting on my delayed red-eye flight to Chicago. I’d picked it… Read More »An Uncommon Connection: Reading The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger

By Claire Taylor The first book that made me want to be a writer came into my possession by way of a swimming pool. My… Read More »Reading Ordinary People as a Not-So-Ordinary 10-Year-Old

By Michael Colbert I started reading it on the tour bus. Tucked against the curtain, I gave more attention to sleuthing sisters, Antarctica, mother-daughter magician… Read More »Reading The Isle of Youth by Laura van den Berg in Sicily

By Carolina VonKampen I didn’t finish reading H Is for Hawk. It had been assigned by my professor as the last required book in our… Read More »On (Not) Reading the Wrong Book at the Wrong Time: H Is for Hawk