Favorites: Part Thirteen
Stephanie O’Cain
Stephanie O’Cain’s favorite book is Written on the Body.
Favorites: Part Twelve
Greg Galant
Greg Galant’s favorite book is The Power Broker.
The Sweeney Todd Phenomenon
The incarnations of Sweeney Todd.
Favorites: Part Eleven
Erin Cox
Erin Cox shares her favorite books with us.
Favorites: Part Ten
Dylan Moulton
Dylan Moulton’s favorite book is…
Favorites: Part Nine
Noa Wheeler
I have never finished reading my favorite book. This may sound incongruous, but the truth is that any time I “finish” Sartre’s ‘The Words’, I simply start it again. For many years, I have always been somewhere in the process of reading this quietly brilliant book. Sartre’s memoir is one of paradox.
Quixotic Coinages: The Failure of the Epicene Pronoun
Earlier this week I spent an enjoyable hour being interviewed on the Wisconsin Public Radio show “At Issue with Ben Merens.” Though our topic was ostensibly the New Oxford American Dictionary’s choice of ‘locavore’ as Word of the Year, we soon ventured into other word-related matters, such as ‘O’.
Favourite Books of 2007 from OUP-UK
The staff at OUP-UK tell you about their favourite books of 2007
Charles Dickens and Sweeney Todd
Yesterday, Robert Mack, the editor of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, wrote about the unknown author of Sweeney Todd. Today Mack looks at Dickens’s influence. This post first appeared on Powell’s. The original publisher of Sweeney Todd, Edward Lloyd, in whose journal The People’s Periodical and Family Library first appeared in 1846-7, […]
Favorites: Part Eight
Jaime Morganstern
Jaime Morganstern’s favorite book is Love Story.
Year In, Year Out
Anatoly divulges how seasons make up the year.
Favorites: Part Seven
Bethany Heitman
Bethany Heitman’s favorite book is In Cold Blood.
Favorites: Part Six
Mark Sarvas
To celebrate the holidays we asked some of our favorite people in publishing what their favorite book was. Let us know in the comments what your favorite book is and be sure to check back throughout the week for more “favorites”. Mark Sarvas runs the literary blog The Elegant Variation. His criticism has appeared in […]
Who Wrote Sweeney Todd?
Who wrote Sweeney Todd?
Favorites: Part Five
Andrew DeSio
Andew DeSio’s favorite book is Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park, Mozambique, South Africa, and Zimbabwe
Ben’s Place of the Week is Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park, Mozambique, South Africa, and Zimbabwe.