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Most literary magazines focus on the craft of writing and cater to a highly select audience of writers, literary critics, and scholars of literature. In contrast, The Reader is a quarterly literary magazine aimed at the intelligent common reader celebrating the act of reading in all its forms and facets. The Reader not only publishes short fiction and poetry by new and established writers but also contains many other features-essays on language, writing, and reading; a literary quiz; a publishing industry gossip column, `Our Spy in NY'; and book reviews. Highlights of issue 19 include an article on Rebecca Solnit by Lawrence Weschler; a piece on the emergence of the novel in the United States by Michael Schmidt; and essays on the works of Carson McCullers, Anne Bradstreet, and Toni Morrison. The Reader offers rich, engaging reading for booklovers, combining high-quality content with a genuine commitment to the dedicated reader.