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November 18, 2015

NBCC Reads: Second Thoughts: Joanna Scutts on Emma

By Joanna Scutts

This is the tenth in Critical Mass's new Second Thoughts series, curated by Daniel Akst. More about this series, and how to submit, here. I remember how my first copy of Emma

November 11, 2015

NBCC Reads: Second Thoughts: Mark Sarvas on From Russia With Love

By Mark Sarvas

This is the ninth in Critical Mass's new Second Thoughts series, curated by Daniel Akst. More about this series, and how to submit, here. The arrival of Spectre, the 24th official James

November 4, 2015

NBCC Reads: Garry Howze on Go Tell It On the Mountain

By Garry Howze

This is the eighth in Critical Mass's new Second Thoughts series, curated by Daniel Akst. More about this series, and how to submit, here. In a somewhat measured attempt to match the fine

October 28, 2015

NBCC Reads: Second Thoughts: Abby Frucht on a Book About the Colosseum

By Abby Frucht

This is the seventh in Critical Mass's new Second Thoughts series, curated by Daniel Akst. More about this series, and how to submit, here. I was a 9 year-old who liked to

October 21, 2015

NBCC Reads: Second Thoughts: Nancy Rommelmann on Bad Behavior

By Nancy Rommelmann

This is the sixth in Critical Mass's new Second Thoughts series, curated by Daniel Akst. More about this series, and how to submit, here.  September 1989. There is a heat wave in

October 14, 2015

NBCC Reads: Second Thoughts: Richard Aldous on The Warden and Barchester Towers*

By Richard Aldous

This is the fifth in Critical Mass's new Second Thoughts series, curated by Daniel Akst. More about this series, and how to submit, here.  “Whilst wandering there on a midsummer evening through

October 7, 2015

NBCC Reads: Second Thoughts: Marion Winik on To the Lighthouse

By Marion Winik

This is the fourth in Critical Mass's new Second Thoughts series, curated by Daniel Akst. More about this series, and how to submit, here.  Though most of these Second Thoughts pieces are

September 30, 2015

NBCC Reads: Second Thoughts: Louis Bayard on Breakfast at Tiffany’s

By Louis Bayard

This is the third in Critical Mass's new Second Thoughts series, curated by Daniel Akst. More about this series, and how to submit, here.  “Here,” said my 12th-grade creative-writing teacher. “You might

September 23, 2015

NBCC Reads: Second Thoughts: Celia Bland on Look Homeward, Angel

By Celia Bland

This is the second in Critical Mass's new Second Thoughts series, curated by Daniel Akst. More about this series, and how to submit, here.  Asheville, North Carolina. By the time

September 15, 2015

NBCC Reads: Second Thoughts: Sam Sacks on Crime and Punishment

By Sam Sacks

Critical Mass's new Second Thoughts series, curated by Daniel Akst, begins this week. More about this series, and how to submit, here.  I have a perfectly clear memory of reading

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