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Book Review: Generosity: An Enhancement by Richard Powers

I recently read an an interesting comparison between two dominant strands of how we approach reading a book, particularly for reviewing — the journalistic approach and the literary criticism approach. While I don’t necessarily agree with all the observations, it does fairly define those approaches and, as this review demonstrates, I find myself largely in […]

August Bibliolust

As I hinted yesterday, this year’s South Dakota Festival of Books is impacting this month’s Bibliolust. The program for the festival, Sept. 24-26, gives rise to just more than half the books on this month’s list — and there’s a couple others I’m pondering that haven’t quite turned into lust. Of course, there’s also the […]