What's Scrabble when you can play Novelist?

 

Asks Dwight Garner

in The New York Times

July 1, 2011

 

"In my extended family, over the past decade, we’ve looked forward to playing something we call the book game, which I am going to retitle, for the purposes of this article, the paperback game......A version of it was packaged in 1991 under the brand name Ex Libris. Some of you may have played the paperback game; I’m guessing many of you haven’t. It’s time to plug this small but vital gap in your education."