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Readings: Essays And Literary Entertainments
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Readingsliterary Entertainmentsmichael Dirdathe Best Of The Column, Readings, Fromwashington Post Book World, By Pulitzer Prizewinner Michael Dirda.Since 1993Washington Post Book World Has Published A Monthly Column By Michael Dirda Called Readings. Personal, Erudite, Serious, And Sometimes Playful, These Columns Cover A Variety Of Subjects: Classics In Translation, Intellectual History, Childrens Books, Fantasy And Crime Fiction, American And European Literature, Poetry, Innovative Writing, The Joys Of Collecting First Editions, Rediscovering Neglected Novels, Ghost Stories, Teaching Writing, And The Challenges Of Parenthood And Life In General. Dirda Is A Writers Reader And A Readers Writer. He Is An Impeccable Guide To Good Reading From The Lighthe Loves P. G. Wodehouseto Scholarly Esoterica. His Columns Are Always Worth A Pause, Always Worth Reading, Always Worth Coming Back To. Readings Presents His Most Memorable Essays, Including The Crime Of His Life (A Youthful Caper), Bookmans Saturday (The Scheming Of A Book Collector), Weekend With Wodehouse, Mr. Wright (An Exemplary High School Teacher), Listening To My Father, Turning Fifty, And Millennial Readings. This Is A Book To Keep On Your Bedside For Ending The Day With Pleasurable Reading.Michael Dirda Is A Writer And Senior Editor Forwashington Post Book World. For Three Years He Was A Board Member Of The National Book Critics Circle. His Essays And Reviews Have Appeared In Numerous Publications. In 1993 Dirda Received The Pulitzer Prize For Distinguished Criticism.[Use One Of These Excerpts From Book]Pleasures Of A Book Reviewer: To Open A New Book Tentatively, With Indifference Even, And To Find Oneself Yet Again In Thrallto A Writers Prose, To A Thrillers Plot, To A Thinkers Mind. Let The Whole Wide World Crumble, So Long As I Can Read Another Page. And Then Another After That. And Then A Hundred More.Book Collecting Is Often A Form Of Hero Worshipor Heroine Worship (No One Bows Lower Than I Before The Genius Of Angela Carter, Colette And Agatha Christie, To Mention Only Three High Cs). After A While, Though, One Yearns For More Than First Editions And Scholarly Sets Of An Authors Complete Works. Enthusiasm Spreads, Insidiously, Into What One May Call Supplementary Areas.
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