A new site called Books in my Phone could prove useful to those of us who don’t want to carry around an expensive e-reader.
All titles are free to download and install on your phone. You can browse the available books by Author or Title; or you can pull up lists of classics through their classification: [...]



John Liechty has a piece about the Orion Publishing Company’s decision to edit a series of classic books, stripping them down to around 30% to 40% of their original length.
Ray Bradbury foresees a time when books will be burned, or changed, or “corrected” – when Poe and Shakespeare will have the soul cut out of [...]



I’m often asked if there is something I think writers ought to do, and recently in an interview I heard myself say: “Several things. Love words, agonize over sentences. And pay attention to the world.”
Needless to say, no sooner had these perky phrases fallen out of my mouth than I thought of some more recipes [...]






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