This week's best sellers: the opposite of an e-reader

Anne Carson’s art book elegy, Nox, reaches the number 1 spot on the contemporary best seller list this week. The book, which Sam Anderson of New York Magazine called “the opposite of an e-reader” due to its unwieldy accordion-style pages, beats out best seller stalwarts Billy Collins, Kay Ryan, Mary Oliver, and Robert Hass. Hass—whose new collection, The Apple Trees at Olena, is at number 4—also has his collected poems, Time and Materials, at number 30. Debuting on this week’s list is Sherwin Bitsui’s Flood Song, a collection Poets & Writers called “a sprawling, panoramic journey through landscape, time, and cultures.”