Translated from Italian by Ann Goldstein Elena Ferrante has become a literary sensation in the Anglophone world with The Neopolitan Quartet, books about a friendship between two women. The books not only chart the story of Elena and Lila’s friendship over several decades but also that of Italy. My Brilliant Friend, the first of the …
Month: February 2016
The Intangibility of Books: The Digital Bibliophile, by Eric Burns-White
An interesting article on the ongoing and seemingly endless debate on the merits of paper books and ebooks. Personally, I'm very much a paper book person and don't even own a Kindle. But I did enjoy this article on the joys of ebooks--and modern information technology--and thought I'd share it. "We’ve all heard it said that …
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