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