Month: July 2024

Rethinking the Classics

July 21, 2024 News Editor 0

Do you think you know what makes a classic novel… er… classic? The Washington Post thinks maybe we should think again. WaPo recently asked readers of their Book Club newsletter “which classic books are overrated and which unsung novels should be considered top-tier, we didn’t predict the level of enthusiasm that would accompany the responses”. Among those that some readers thought should get the toss were iconic books like J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the […]

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Thinking About Reading About Appalachia? Keep Looking

July 20, 2024 News Editor 0

It’s been (ahem) an eventful few weeks. We won’t go into it deeply in this space. Just yet. But one thing that brightened the last week or so was the constant stream of people we noted on social media compiling lists — and pointing us at others — where one could read “real books” on Appalachia, “better than the POS one” by the man who is now a vice-presidential hopeful. All right then. Bookriot said […]