Ed. Magazine On My Bookshelf: Associate Professor Meira Levinson Posted September 5, 2012 By Marin Jorgensen [caption id="attachment_8708" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Photo by Jill Anderson"][/caption]Currently reading: Truthfully, primarily The New Yorker, as I seem to find time these days only for reading short pieces. Oh yes, and Paddington Bear and The Watsons Go To Birmingham — 1963 with my children (ages 6 and 9). On the grown-up books front, however, I'm currently immersed in The Imperative of Integration by Elizabeth Anderson.The thing that drew you to it: I'm personally and professionally interested in the topic [integration]. Also, Anderson is one of the few political philosophers who try to integrate serious social science data into their work; since this is something I try to do as well, I wanted to learn from her approach.Noneducation genre of choice: Novels. Ideally complex, layered, and somewhat self-referential, but not radically post-modern. I'm a sucker for narrative.Last great read: We've Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children's March, by my mother, Cynthia Levinson. It's a dramatic and absorbing account of four of the children — the youngest was nine years old — who marched and were jailed for freedom.I am ashamed to admit, I have never read… James Joyce's Ulysses.Favorite spot to curl up with a good book: I remember I used to do that, in the mists of time before having kids! I suppose anywhere quiet — and far away from a computer. How you find the time: I stay up too late.Next up: Freedom by Jonathan Franzen. Ed. Magazine The magazine of the Harvard Graduate School of Education Explore All Articles Related Articles News Gonzales Wins Outstanding Book Award News App Generation Explored at Askwith Forum Ed. Magazine The Third Chapter