When you get lost in a book, you often enter a trance-like state similar to meditation and that state is deeply protective.” ...

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Imagine opening a book that knows exactly what you want to read. Not just the genre, but the pacing you prefer, the ...

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Mr. Giles is a novelist and the former executive Hollywood editor of Vanity Fair. Anyone who’s published a book or tried to has had even indispensable friends and family tell them why they’re not ...

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Men are leaving fiction reading behind. Some people want to change that. Men are leaving fiction reading behind. Some people want to change that. In the mid-20th century, when this man browsed ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I advise CEOs and senior executives on leadership and strategy. When I ask executives what they’re reading, I usually get a ...