Sasha Frere-Jones: What I Read
Sasha Frere-Jones, staff writer and pop-music critic at The New Yorker, loves Instapaper but believes in printing things out, and wants to start an Edith Wharton book club.
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We don't know when it was determined that we could not read books of substance on the beach. But with the help of some literary-minded friends of The Atlantic Wire, we're calling hogwash on this verdict.
Sasha Frere-Jones, staff writer and pop-music critic at The New Yorker, loves Instapaper but believes in printing things out, and wants to start an Edith Wharton book club.
Today in books: the flawed logic behind Jonathan Franzen's Twitter unease, another Next Harry Potter is crowned, and Michelle Obama's gardening book is now coming out May 29.
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