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Our book today is Peter Benchley's mega-bestselling 1974 novel Jaws , which was subsequently made into an obscure art-house film some of...

Our book today is the greatest American political memoir ever written, by the greatest American politician who ever lived: of course I refer...

Allow me to add my quick and completely enthusiastic 'Hear, hear!' to the interview my fellow book-blogger Eric Forbes just conducte...

I had intended to make the first Stevereads post of 2011 – the first of a new decade! - entirely wombat-related. But then I noticed the litt...

Despite the much-ballyhoo'd defeat of books at the hands of electronic gadgets, and despite the much-ballyhoo'd sloth of the general...

Our book today is an inadvertently sad one, Patrick O'Brian's Blue at the Mizzen from 2000 – sad because it's the last of the g...

Sometimes, when you're not feeling all that good, only a certain type of old friend will serve. When you're walking around town or w...

Our book today is the gorgeous 1996 volume The Nature of Massachusetts, written by Christopher Leahy, John Hanson Mitchell, and Thomas Conue...

Our book today is Gore Vidal's 1973 essay collection Homage to Daniel Shays, containing high-point pieces from 1952 to 1972, spanning su...

 Our book today is Philip Waller's massive, utterly delightful Writers, Readers, & Reputations from 2006, and it finishes off our l...

Our book today is 1984 novel Letters to Alice on First Reading Jane Austen , and the blurbs it garnered at the time (including an unsigned b...

  Our book today is George Hamilton Fitch's 1911 volume Comfort Found in Good Old Books , a collection of the author's most popular ...

Our book today is Eric Burns' The Joy of Books , and it underscores a point I've made before: the most curious thing about good read...

This is Paul Marron, a funny, articulate, down-to-earth guy with a pointy nose, a nasal voice, a limited but effective cooking repertoire, a...