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But Will the Posts Be Graded?

Entertainment Weekly just started a book blog entitled Shelf Life. And thank the gods, so far there’s only one post on Twilight. ...

The "New Classics"?

I unabashedly love Entertainment Weekly. (Or at least did—once my TV broke, I canceled my subscription.) That said, the recent list of the 100 best reads from 1983 to 2008 strikes me as unbelievably provincial, and well, just plain bad. There are a handful of great books here—out of the top 25, The Wind-Up ...