The older I've got the less I find myself going back and re-reading or really reading new fiction or poetry.

The older I've got the less I find myself going back and re-reading or really reading new fiction or poetry.

Reading is an intelligent way of not having to think.

We don't read novels to have an experience like life. Heck, we're living lives, complete with all the incompleteness. We turn to fiction to have an author assure us that it means something.

Hemingway's short fiction is what changed American literature,

It seems to me that it's a fairly narrow market that's going to pay for the privilege of reading columns by Maureen Dowd and Paul Krugman and such,