The New York Times – Travel:
The dozens of books that T writer Aatish Taseer read before his journey through Bolivia, Mongolia and Iraq, and what he learned from each pilgrimage.
Category: Books and Literature
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Is Reading the Hottest Thing You Can Do as a Single Person?
The New York Times – Fashion & Style:
Pop culture has conditioned us to believe that a meet-cute that doesn’t happen in a bookstore is hardly worth having. But is being an avid reader truly essential to romance?
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What the Suburbs Did for Billy Joel and Bruce Springsteen
The New York Times – Music:
A new book by the author Jim Cullen explores the uncanny parallels between the careers of these two musicians, and how they were products of their time and place.
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Britney Spears’s Memoir Sells 1.1 Million Copies in U.S. in First Week
The New York Times – Music:
Sales of “The Woman in Me,” which chronicles the pop star’s life, from stardom as a teen to the conservatorship that controlled much of her adulthood, demonstrate tremendous interest in Spears’s story.
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Celebrity Narrators: The ‘Matchmaking’ Behind Britney Spears and Michelle Williams
The New York Times – Fashion & Style:
Snippets of Michelle Williams’s narration of Britney Spears’s new memoir have proved explosively popular online. But what goes into selecting a celebrity reader for an audiobook?
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Read Your Way Through Lima
The New York Times – Travel:
Lima is a city of contrasts and contradictions — gray and tropical, dense and isolated. Augusto Higa Oshiro, one of its writers, recommended books and authors that have captured its complexity.