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Hardcover Browsings: A Year of Reading, Collecting, and Living with Books Book

ISBN: 1605988448

ISBN13: 9781605988443

Browsings: A Year of Reading, Collecting, and Living with Books

Dirda's latest volume collects fifty of his witty and wide-ranging reflections on literary journalism, book collecting, and the writers he loves. 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...

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