Up in the Air -

he last thing Hannah Bliss wants to do this weekend is go to her perfect aunt Alex’s engagement party. She’d rather get high. Hole up in her bedroom, turn on her webcam and make some money.'After losing the love of his life to cancer, Sean McIntire will bnot /bget involved with anyone else, ever again. So when he accompanies his friend Cicily to a party where he knows absolutely nobody, and meets a stunning girl who promises him no attachments, it seems like just what he needs.'But Sean never thought he’d end up saving Hannah’s life that night. 'No attachments? Not so fast. Everything’s up in the air.

Of the many charges laid against contemporary literary scholars, one of the most common—and perhaps the most wounding—is that they simply don't love books. And while the most obvious response is that, no, actually the profession of literary studies does acknowledge and address personal attachments to literature, that answer risks obscuring a more fundamental question: Why should they?