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While traveling, Manguel was struck by how the novel he was reading seemed to reflect the social chaos of the world he was living in. He decided to ... More

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In this major collection of his essays, Alberto Manguel, whom George Steiner has called "the Casanova of reading," argues that the activity of ... More

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While traveling, Manguel was struck by how the novel he was reading seemed to reflect the social chaos of the world he was living in. He decided to ... More

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As a child, Andrew had a reading disability; now he is a psychoanalyst, and professionally adept in the art of conversation. Not Drowning, Reading is ... More

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Frye Gaillard's first encounters with books were disappointing. As a child he never cared much for fairy tales "stories of cannibalism and mayhem in ... More

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Blending confessional criticism and anthropological autobiography, David Shields explores the power of literature to make life endurable. How ... More

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"NinaSankovitch has crafted a dazzling memoir that remindsus of the most primal function of literature-to heal, to nurture and to connectus to our ... More

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Lured by tawny beaches, blossoming almond trees, dazzling white villas, golf courses and quaint fishing villages, Marianne Gilbert ... More

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The publishing memoirs of Charles Nuetzel, legendary paperback author, editor, publisher, and packager.

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When Nina Sankovitch's sister died at the age of forty-six, Nina turned to books for comfort, escape, and introspection. In her beloved purple chair, ... More

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In the tradition of Harold Bloom's "Shakespeare" or Jaques Barzun's "From Dawn to Decadence, " Brown University's Weinstein explores how great works ... More

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"Create dangerously, for people who read dangerously. This is what I've always thought it meant to be a writer. Writing, knowing in part that no ... More

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As a novelist Graham Swift delights in the possibilities of the human voice, imagining his way into the minds and hearts of an extraordinary range of ... More

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Suzanne Shea has always loved a good book--and she's written five of them, all acclaimed. In the course of her ten-year career, she's done a good bit ... More

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In his first ever work of non-fiction, the Booker Prize-winning author of "Last Orders" and "Waterland" delivers a warm and generous account of what ... More

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Intimate look at a literary legend.

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This is a year of reading from home, by one of Britain's most distinguished authors. Early one autumn afternoon in pursuit of an elusive book on her ... More

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Ozma shares vignettes about her relationship with her father and the life lessons learned from the books he read to her.

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Walt Whitman experienced first-hand the ravages of the Civil War as a volunteer nurse in the hospitals of Washington D.C. During that time, he filled ... More

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Best-selling author Susan Hill rediscovers the joy of reading as she explores her extensive book collection.

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A pound of paper--the weight, more or less, of a book--is the peg on which book collector extraordinaire John Baxter hangs each charming episode of ... More

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Enter a world of gimlet-eyed, detail-crazed obsessives in this totally addictive memoir about book collecting. By the 1960s, a copy of Graham Greene ... More

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"Doing things by the book" acquires a whole new meaning in Brandon R. Schrand's memoir of coming of age in spite of himself. The "works cited" are ... More

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