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Browsings
About this book
Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Michael Dirda has been hailed as "the best-read person in America" (The Paris Review) and "the best book critic in America" (The New York Observer). His latest volume collects fifty of his witty and wide-ranging reflections on a life in literature. Reaching from the classics to the post-moderns, his allusions dance from Samuel Johnson, Ralph Waldo Emerson and M. F. K. Fisher to Marilynne Robinson, Hunter S. Thompson, and David Foster Wallace. Dirda's topics are equally diverse: literary pets, the lost art of cursive writing, book inscriptions, the pleasures of science fiction conventions, author photographs, novelists in old age, Oberlin College, a year in Marseille, writer's block, and much more. As admirers of his earlier books will expect, there are annotated lists galore—of perfect book titles, great adventure novels, favorite words, books about books, and beloved children's classics, as well as a revealing peek at the titles Michael keeps on his own nightstand.Funny and erudite, Browsings is a celebration of the reading life, a fan's notes, and the perfect gift for any booklover.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Contents
- Introduction
- Mr. Zinsser, I Presume
- Style Is the Man
- Armchair Adventures
- Bookish Pets
- Paper
- This Is a Column
- Scribble, Scribble
- Books on Books
- Text Mess
- Twilight of an Author
- Spring Book Sales
- Memories of Marseille
- Hail to Thee, Blithe Spirit!
- Synonym Toast
- Cowboys and Clubmen
- Grades
- Anglophilia
- After the Golden Age
- Anthologies and Collections
- Rocky Mountain Low
- The Fugitive
- Hot Enough for You?
- Wonder Books
- Readercon
- Aurora
- Out of Print
- Thrift Stories
- Musical Chairs
- The Evidence in the (Book) Case
- Charlottesville
- Then and Now
- Mencken Day
- New and Old
- Dirty Pictures
- Going, Going, Gone
- Castles in Space
- Waving, Not Drowning
- Oberlin
- Jacques Barzun—and Others
- What’s in a Name?
- Language Matters
- “I’m Done”
- Poe and Baudelaire
- In Praise of Small Presses
- Christmas Reading
- Books for the Holidays
- Let Us Now Praise Dover Books
- A Dreamer’s Tale
- Money
- Book Projects
- Ending Up
- A Positively, Final Appearance
- Afterword
- Biographical Note
- Acknowledgments
- Copyright
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