The relaunch of A Working Library, and what I’ve come to think of as a new beginning.

As I write this, I am baking bread. Or, at least, I am trying to bake bread.

Let’s pretend, for a moment, that the reading experience on the web is dependent upon an advertising economy.

From issue 278 of A List Apart.

How to read voraciously, without slipping through the looking glass.

A meditation on how the name of a text prefigures its form.

To remember is to forget.

By design, a text makes a statement as to how it should be read—or if it should be read at all.

A response to Joe Clark’s article in Scroll Magazine on reading long on the web.

Can the conversation around a book replace the act of reading it?

It is impossible to write an effective first post on a blog.