Author: Noah Fram

When I first bought Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, I was happy. It wasn’t a long book at all, I was in the middle of several other reading projects, …

The single oddest piece of memorizing advice I’ve ever gotten came in eighth grade. We had to memorize Lewis Carroll’s poem “Jabberwocky,” and my teacher recommended that we sit …

During the Vietnam War, soldiers and protesters found very little common ground. An unlikely area of agreement, though, was the shared fondness for Joseph Heller’s Catch-22. Today, Heller’s opus …

Hello, fellow librophiles! We’ve never met. I’m a blogger, and you’re someone staring at a computer screen in Nova Scotia or Puyallup. But I bet I know something about …