Books

Just in case the weather has you down (or you've already done all of your required reading for the spring term), we at FlyBy asked faculty members to give some reading suggestions for the remaining days of spring break. Here's what they told us.

Korean-American author Chang-rae Lee described writing as an act of improvisation at the Harvard Book Store yesterday.

The ability to appreciate the comedic aspects of any great novel can expose new dimensions of a book’s complexities.

“Mean Free Path” is an experiment aiming for the reconstruction, not dismantlement, of poetic forms. Lerner’s book invents a new form as recognizable and systematic as the old ones.

Lelic’s plotline centers on a school shooting in which Mr. Szajkowski—a teacher who everyone agrees was always strange—walks into a school assembly and opens fire on students and teachers alike.

“I don’t think I’ve ever seen a Princeton student smoke, but just look at all of you here,” remarked Jeffrey ...

"The Museum of Eterna's Novel" is a meta-novel that goes so deep into the swirl of metas that it loses itself, its characters, and us in the process.

In "Burning Bright," Rash pays homage to the land and the people of the Appalachian mountains in which he was raised.