Rebecca and I read Atul Gawande's Being Mortal and talked about it.

Going to school full-time and raising two kids definitely involves a lot of reading, but does it make you a reader?

With all of these other endeavors, Elizabeth's reading life has changed markedly, and she was kind enough to talk to me about it.

How do two cultural dynamos get away with never reading?

“Surely there are lonely people out there who would like to talk to me about the books they ignore.”

For this Non-Reader spotlight, we talk to Kathryn Wakeman about not reading, tv, East of Eden, Eat Pray Love, reading the internet, deadlines, feminism, unlikeable female characters, uncontrollable agreeability. 

I read for the same reason that I fish. So I can feel what I can’t see.

For this non-reader spotlight, I talked to Sean Olumstad. Sean and I met as undergrad theatre majors at Illinois Wesleyan, but Sean made the wise move to pursuing a career in nursing.

For this edition of the Non-Reader Spotlight, I’m thrilled to be talking about reading and not reading with Mary Hamilton.

First a note about what I’m doing here: talking to people who consider themselves non-readers.

In April, we ran our first ever "Hobart expert picks" for the 2011 baseball season. With the season just now over, we... more