Tag Archives: Anne Fadiman

The Books: Rereadings: Seventeen Writers Revisit Books They Love, edited by Anne Fadiman; “The Pursuit of Worldliness; The Charterhouse of Parma, by Stendhal”, by Phillip Lopate

Posted on October 18, 2013 by sheila

Next up on the essays shelf: Rereadings: Seventeen Writers Revisit Books They Love, edited by Anne Fadiman During Anne Fadiman’s reign as editor of The American Scholar (I had a subscription). During her reign, she instituted a regular feature called … Continue reading →

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The Books: Rereadings: Seventeen Writers Revisit Books They Love, edited by Anne Fadiman; “Pemberley Previsited, Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen”, by Allegra Goodman

Posted on October 16, 2013 by sheila

Next up on the essays shelf: Rereadings: Seventeen Writers Revisit Books They Love, edited by Anne Fadiman During Anne Fadiman’s reign as editor of The American Scholar (I had a subscription). During her reign, she instituted a regular feature called … Continue reading →

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The Books: Rereadings: Seventeen Writers Revisit Books They Love, edited by Anne Fadiman; “Love with a Capital L, The Vagabond and The Shackle, by Colette”, by Vivian Gornick

Posted on October 14, 2013 by sheila

Next up on the essays shelf: Rereadings: Seventeen Writers Revisit Books They Love, edited by Anne Fadiman During Anne Fadiman’s reign as editor of The American Scholar (I had a subscription). During her reign, she instituted a regular feature called … Continue reading →

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The Books: Rereadings: Seventeen Writers Revisit Books They Love, edited by Anne Fadiman; “A Companion of The Prophet: Arthur Rimbaud, by Enid Starkie”, by Luc Sante

Posted on October 11, 2013 by sheila

Next up on the essays shelf: Rereadings: Seventeen Writers Revisit Books They Love, edited by Anne Fadiman During Anne Fadiman’s reign as editor of The American Scholar (I had a subscription), she instituted a regular feature called “Rereadings”, where she … Continue reading →

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The Books: Rereadings: Seventeen Writers Revisit Books They Love, edited by Anne Fadiman; ‘Relics of Saint Katherine: ‘The Journal, Letters and Stories of Katherine Mansfield’, by Patricia Hampl

Posted on October 7, 2013 by sheila

Next up on the essays shelf: Rereadings: Seventeen Writers Revisit Books They Love, edited by Anne Fadiman During Anne Fadiman’s reign as editor of The American Scholar (I had a subscription). During her reign, she instituted a regular feature called … Continue reading →

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The Books: Rereadings: Seventeen Writers Revisit Books They Love, edited by Anne Fadiman; ‘Marginal Notes on the Inner Lives of People with Cluttered Apartments in the East Seventies: ‘Franny and Zooey’, by J.D. Salinger”, by David Samuels

Posted on October 5, 2013 by sheila

Next up on the essays shelf: Rereadings: Seventeen Writers Revisit Books They Love, edited by Anne Fadiman Anne Fadiman is an author important to our family. I wrote about why here. Her lovely little book, Ex Libris, made up of … Continue reading →

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The Books: Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader, ‘The P.M.’s Empire of Books’, by Anne Fadiman

Posted on December 19, 2012 by sheila

On the essays shelf: Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader, by Anne Fadiman What a strangely moving and illuminating essay. It’s really about how to organize your book collection, in a way that does not overwhelm your environs – … Continue reading →

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The Books: Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader, ‘My Ancestral Castles’, by Anne Fadiman

Posted on December 18, 2012 by sheila

On the essays shelf: Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader, by Anne Fadiman This essay really hits home for me. It hit home when I first read it (I grew up surrounded by books), but especially now, when my … Continue reading →

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The Books: Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader, ‘The His’er Problem’, by Anne Fadiman

Posted on December 17, 2012 by sheila

On the essays shelf: Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader, by Anne Fadiman This essay, charming and funny as it is (it has the funniest line in the entire collection), is an important discussion about gender parity in language, … Continue reading →

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The Books: Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader, ‘You Are There’, by Anne Fadiman

Posted on December 15, 2012 by sheila

On the essays shelf: Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader, by Anne Fadiman Ex Libris, by Anne Fadiman, is a book about reading, for readers. Serious readers. People who have an opinion about whether or not is morally correct … Continue reading →

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