Blog Posts by Subject: English and American Literature

For the week of September 2, 2012 we have hardcover fiction, hardcover non-fiction, and hardcover advice & misc. books.

For the week of August 26, 2012 we have hardcover fiction, hardcover non-fiction, and children's picture books.

For the week of August 19, 2012 we have hardcover fiction, hardcover non-fiction, and children's series books.

For the week of August 12, 2012 we have hardcover fiction, hardcover non-fiction, and paperback trade fiction books.

For the week of August 5, 2012 we have hardcover fiction, hardcover non-fiction, and hardcover advice & misc. books.

Our final discussion will cover Chapters 13 - 15 of The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton. Mystery Summer continues in August with an online discussion of Dashiell Hammett's classic 1930 novel The Maltese Falcon. 

For the week of July 29, 2012 we have hardcover fiction, hardcover non-fiction, and children's picture books.

For our penultimate discussion, we will be taking a look at Chapters 9 - 12 of G.K. Chesterton's The Man Who Was Thursday, A Nightmare, which is part of both Mystery Summer and the New York Public Library's monthly online book discussion Reader's Den.

Kenneth Fearing was a major poet of the Great Depression and the founding editor of the Partisan Review.

He lived at 311 W. 11th Street and his birthday is July 28.

For the week of July 22, 2012 we have hardcover fiction, hardcover non-fiction, and children's chapter books.

Raymond Chandler did not spend very much time in the Village but he did check into the residential hotel, The Grosvenor, 35 Fifth Avenue, in the spring of 1955 and stayed for a short while.

He also wrote this in a 1954 letter to Hamish Hamilton about imagined neglected authors:

This week, we will be discussing Chapters 5-8 of The Man Who Was Thursday, A Nightmare by G.K. Chesterton as part of the New York Public Library's Reader's Den.

If you don't have a copy of the book yet, please visit the first post for links to request a library copy or download the FREE ebook.

For the week of July 15, 2012 we have hardcover fiction, hardcover non-fiction, and paperback non-fiction.

According to the Kinsey Report
Ev'ry average man you know

For the week of July 8, 2012 we have hardcover fiction, hardcover non-fiction, and hardcover advice & misc.

Welcome to the New York Public Library's Reader's Den, a monthly online book discussion. For July, we will be reading G.K. Chesterton's 1908 novel The Man Who Was Thursday, A Nightmare as part of Mystery Summer.

Get a free copy of the book from any of the following sources.

For the week of July 1, 2012 we have hardcover fiction, hardcover non-fiction, and children's picture books.

For the week of June 24, 2012 we have hardcover fiction, hardcover non-fiction, and children's paperback books.

Mary McCarthy is eminently quotable, so I'll let her speak for herself. June 21 is her birthday and she lived at 16 Gay Street.