Quoted: Recent studies confirm what publishing executives have long suspected: Women read more than men. It's not clear why but theories abound, ranging from early childhood development to the differences between the male and female brain.

Quoted: A crotchety boss might say that we’re working longer because we’re wasting time, but the opposite may also be true. We are wasting time because we are working harder.

Great article

Quoted: What's odd is, none of it appears to have made us happier. Throughout the postwar years, even as the gnp curve has steadily climbed, the ...

coool

Quoted: Reinventing the look (even smell) of a book

I just saw Bill Moyers speak last night. He is such a hero of mine, and he was even more articulate and gentlemanly in person than I imagined. He was promoting this new book of his, about the Christian Right and their fatal threat to the environment. Scary but motivating stuff.

Quoted: Amazon.com: Welcome to Doomsday (New York Review Books Collection): Books: Bill Moyers,Bill Mckibben by Bill Moyers,Bill Mckibben

Speaking of books, this is one of the best I've read in a while. Part fictional autobiography, part cook cook, part mystery. The narrator is one of the most hilariously pretentious I've ever encountered. Genius.

Quoted: Amazon.com: The Debt to Pleasure: A Novel: Books: John Lanchester by John Lanchester

Damn. Lots of literary fraud these days, huh? JT Leroy actually gave Matt's brother's boyfriend's book a rave review. I wonder if it still counts. Pam

Quoted: The books published under the name JT Leroy were actually written by a San Francisco woman named Laura Albert.

Shiwani, you are the love of my life