MutterReads: free edition

While we traditionally recommend a weekend read, we thought a roundup of places for free ebooks, audiobooks and yes, even magazines, might be more helpful. Many have their own apps for reading on a variety of devices. Here are some of our favorites: Scribd, the world’s largest digital library, is …

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MutterReads: bargain edition

Today on Amazon for $1.99: Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff. Lotto and Mathilde meet in college and fall madly in love. They begin their lives in New York in the 1990s where Lotto pursues acting while Mathilde works in an art gallery to support them. When one drunken night …

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MutterReads: play ball

In honor of baseball’s spring training I recommend The Resisters by Gish Jen. In a post-new world order called Auto-America, much of the country is under water and divided into two classes: The Netters, fair-skinned people living on higher ground and afforded life’s luxuries and The Surplus, mostly copper-toned people …

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