Stevereads
Steve DonoghueWhat I read and why
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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| Issues | 312 | Founded | 3 years ago | Last Issue | 4 days ago |
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Getting the Odyssey in the Mail
Celebrating the Penguin Classic that started it all
One day fairly recently I got back from walking with my little dog and found the customary batch of book-packages on the front porch. I settled my fussy little princess on the fainting co...
Ink Chorus: Wilfrid Sheed
Re-reading "The Morning After"
Wilfrid Sheed, a first-rate book critic who would certainly have called himself (and wanted others to call him) a first-rate novelist, wrote a first-rate novel called Max Jamison, ostensibly about a first-rat...
The End of the Mass Market Era
Another look back at a passionate reading affair
Given the recent furor in the book-world about the imminent death of the mass market paperback, I’ve been thinking a good deal in 2026 about my life-long association with this remarkable pie...
Death in the Oasis!
No room at the inn
A long time, ago, a brutal idiot grew out his whiskers, beat his children, and gradually became a wealthy, influential farmer on the sometime-island of Chappaquiddick nudging next to Martha’s Vineyard, off the coast of M...
Of Books and Long-Forgotten Things
Paying a visit to a clothing store
A cheerful young woman greeted me as I walked through the entrance, my entrance (“I could dress myself as a medieval monk [our company emblem at the time] and greet every customer with ‘Prithee may I help...
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Steve Donoghue is a Boston book reviewer, editor, and stone-cold super-hottie
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