The Invention of the "Beach Read" | The New Yorker : vimarsana.com

Katy Waldman reviews “Books for Idle Hours,” a new history by the academic Donna Harrington-Lueker, which unpacks both the constructedness of “summer reading” and its gravitational pull.

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