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by Michael Dirda| 2000| 1.3| English

About Readings: Essays and Literary Entertainments

Intimate, humorous, and insightful, Readings is a collection of classic essays and reviews by Michael Dirda, book critic of the Washington Post and winner of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for criticism. From a first reading of Beckett and Faulkner at the feet of an inspirational high-school English teacher to a meeting of the P. G. Wodehouse Society, from an obsession with Nabokov’s Lolita to the discovery of the Japanese epic The Tale of Genji, these essays chronicle a lifetime of literary enjoyment.The crime of his life –The quest for Scrivener –Talismans –Maxims, etc. –Heart of the matter –Bookman’s Saturday –Supplementary materials –Listening to my father –Romantic scholarship –Weekend with Wodehouse –An abecedary –Mr. Wright –Heian holiday –Childhood’s end –The one and the many –Commencement advice –Four novels and a memoir –The October country –Bookish fantasies –Pages on life’s way –A garland for Max –Read at whim! –Comedy tonight –Light of other days –Data daze –Four-leaf clovers –Sez who? –Lament for a maker –Clubland –The learning channels –Guy Davenport –Eros by any other name –Frank confessions –Mememormee –Tomes for tots –Three classics –Vacation reading –One more modest proposal –Shake scenes –After strange books –Awful bits –Turning 50 –Blame it on books –On the road not taken –Excursion –Millennial readings

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Author:Michael Dirda
Publication Year:2000
ISBN:9780393324891
Language:English
File Size:1.3
Format:PDF
Price:FREE
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