{"id":241,"date":"2007-10-31T10:00:42","date_gmt":"2007-10-31T14:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pickthebrain.com\/read-and-discuss-classic-books-online-at-the-new-york-times\/"},"modified":"2013-08-15T10:54:45","modified_gmt":"2013-08-15T18:54:45","slug":"read-and-discuss-classic-books-online-at-the-new-york-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pickthebrain.com\/blog\/read-and-discuss-classic-books-online-at-the-new-york-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Read and Discuss Classic Books Online at the New York Times"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Found via Open Culture<\/a>, the New York Times has created a new section that allows readers to read and discuss classic books online:<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, The New York Times Book Review launched an online Reading Room<\/a> that lets readers tackle great books with the help of \u201can all-star cast of panelists from various backgrounds\u2014authors, reviewers, scholars and journalists.\u201d The first reading starts with Leo Tolstoy\u2019s 1200+ page epic, War and Peace <\/a>(1865-69), and it\u2019s led by book review editor Sam Tanenhaus and a supporting crew consisting of Bill Keller (executive editor of The Times), Stephen Kotkin (a Russian history professor at Princeton), Francine Prose (author of Reading Like a Writer<\/a>), and Liesl Schillinger (a regular reviewer for the Book Review).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s great to see the classics breaking through into a mainstream media outlet, and I’m interested to see how the discussion group with “all-star panelists” works out. I would have loved something like this when I was reading 2000 page novels in my pre-blogging days.<\/p>\n

On a related note, for those of you who enjoyed PickTheBrain’s free audio book and podcast<\/a> resource collection, Open Culture has a some free audio educational resources that might be of interest:<\/p>\n