And The Most Well-Read City Is...

April 25, 2013 Subscribe · Forward And The Most Well-Read Cities Are... NEW YORK — Alexandria, Va., and Knoxville, Tenn., are cities for readers, if not always the kinds of books your parents wanted you to read. Alexandria and Knoxville ranked No. 1 and No. 2 on Amazon.com's annual list of U.S. cities buying the most books, newspapers and magazines per capita from the online retailer. Continue reading... 'My Novel Wasn't Hungry, It Was Ravenous' PHOTOS: History Of War Dogs (NEW BOOK) Presidents Converge At Bush Library Dedication And The Most Well-Read City Is... 10 Unbelievable But True Stories How NYT Decides What Books To Review And The Most Well-Read City Is... And The Most Well-Read City Is... LISTEN: Jake Gyllenhaal Reads 'Great Gatsby' L.R. LEHMANN Coming Up Big: The Story of Muggsy Bogues "To be honest, it seems like I've been five-three my whole life. I don't ever remember growing. In elementary school I was five-three. In high school I was five-three. It's strange, isn't it? I think my mom was the first woman ever to give birth to a five-three baby." Continue reading... ILANA TEITELBAUM Written in Blood: The Son by Philipp Meyer The Son is a novel that is an epic in the truest sense of the word: massive in scope, replete with transformations in fortune and fate, and drenched in the blood of war. Continue reading... LOIS ALTER MARK I Was a Giver for World Book Night 2013 My favorite gifts to give - and get - are books. If you're a reader, I don't think there's anything more personal, thoughtful and meaningful than a book someone picked out especially for you. Continue reading... ROBERT MANNI What Is a Guy's Guy? How can young men learn what it means to be a man in this rapidly evolving society when they receive such conflicting signals about masculinity that leave them caught between the roid-rage messages of MMA and the tinted moisturizing of manscaping? Continue reading... ILANA ROSS The Wrong Stuff I wonder if we're just not composed like the ones that came before us. If instead, we're made of the wrong stuff? If the stuff inside of us is flimsy, or too sensitive, self-doubting, if we have inner constitution of cotton candy. Continue reading... Received this from a friend? Sign up for alerts from The Huffington Post here. Unsubscribe here. Huffington Post, 770 Broadway, New York, NY 10003