I just came across this piece on Huff Post entitled “10 Books that Taught me Reading Books is Bullshit.” Now, as a vociferous reader and book obsessive, I’m fully willing to admit that I was a little biased against comedian/author Dan Wilbur’s premise, which he’s expanded on in a book length work called How Not to Read, and since I didn’t want to react with a snap judgment, I opened up my mind and read the post (mostly in the form of a slide show), just so I could be sure. Yep, he’s totally full of shit.
Benjamin Roesch
I am a novelist and short story writer living in Burlington, Vermont. My work has appeared in Brilliant Corners, Word Riot, Seven Days, Monkey Bicycle and other fine purveyors of the written word. Mostly, this blog will chronicle my writing life. But I’m restless. And writing can get tiresome to hear about, even if it’s the thing that makes you go boom. So don’t be surprised to find the occasional album or book review, recipe, political musing, notes on a recent home brewing endeavor, writing tutorial, anecdote, or rhetorical question into the ether. Thanks for coming. Stay a while.Read Some of My Work
- Brilliant Corners: People Done Crazier Things for Love Ain't They?
- Fogged Clarity: If You're Listening to This
- Fogged Clarity: Who Has Time for Stars?
- Kids VT: On Becoming-And Not Becoming-My Dad
- Kids VT: Picking Your Battles Against Technology
- Monkey Bicycle: One of the Fighting Fish
- Seven Days: Bloomsbury Heads West
- The Bangalore Review: Nothing is Ever Really Lost: Time and Memory in Eudora Welty's "Music From Spain"
- The Splinter Generation: Family Breakfast
- Word Riot: On Knowing What I'm Doing
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