Rereadings Seventeen writers revisit books they love Is a book the same book or a reader the same reader the second time around The seventeen authors in this witty and poignant collection of essays all agree on the answer Never The editor of Rereadings

Is a book the same book or a reader the same reader the second time around The seventeen authors in this witty and poignant collection of essays all agree on the answer Never.The editor of Rereadings is Anne Fadiman, and readers of her bestselling book Ex Libris will find this volume especially satisfying Her chosen authors include Sven Birkerts, Allegra Goodman, VivianIs a book the same book or a reader the same reader the second time around The seventeen authors in this witty and poignant collection of essays all agree on the answer Never.The editor of Rereadings is Anne Fadiman, and readers of her bestselling book Ex Libris will find this volume especially satisfying Her chosen authors include Sven Birkerts, Allegra Goodman, Vivian Gornick, Patricia Hampl, Phillip Lopate, and Luc Sante the objects of their literary affections range from Pride and Prejudice to Sue Barton, Student Nurse.These essays are not conventional literary criticism they are about relationships Rereadings reveals at least as much about the reader as about the book each is a miniature memoir that focuses on that most interesting of topics, the protean nature of love And as every bibliophile knows, no love is life changing than the love of a book.
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Anne Fadiman, the daughter of Annalee Whit Jacoby Fadiman, a screenwriter and foreign correspondent, and Clifton Fadiman, an essayist and critic, was born in New York City in 1953 She graduated in 1975 from Harvard College, where she began her writing career as the undergraduate columnist at Harvard Magazine For many years, she was a writer and columnist for Life, and later an Editor at Large at Civilization She has won National Magazine Awards for both Reporting 1987 and Essays 2003 , as well as a National Book Critics Circle Award for The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down Ex Libris Confessions of a Common Reader, a collection of first person essays on books and reading, was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 1998 Fadiman was the editor of the intellectual and cultural quarterly The American Scholar from 1997 to 2004 She now holds the Francis chair in nonfiction writing at Yale Fadiman lives in western Massachusetts with her husband, the writer George Howe Colt, and their two childrencmillan author annefa