Judging a book by its lover: a field guide to the hearts and minds of readers everywhere

The Justice League of Ex-teachers of Mine

For the love of print. Commercial confessions ; The bookshelf of the vanities ; That certain bookstore smell ; Ten rules for bookstore hookups ; Rules for public reading ; Survival of the nerdiest ; Oh, the men you'll love

Fan fictions. Harry hardships ; The rules of book club ; Petition to change the term from "bookworm" to "bookcat" ; Fan letters ; The spelling bee ; Your moveable feast ; Little-known treasures ; Infinite lies ; How to write like any author

How to fake it. What your child will grow up to be if you read them

; Stereotyping people by favorite author ; How to fake it ; Strategies to avoid discussing the major plot points of any novel ; A gift guide by a bad gift-giver ; How to speak condescendingly about the most revered authors/literary works ; The written word

Snark bait. Twitter-sized reviews of memoirs ; Book critic's bag of tricks ; Give it to me cheap ; How to succeed in classifying fiction without really trying ; The literati ; To be read

Why we talk about it.