Readings: Essays and Literary Entertainments - Softcover

"A delightful compendium of Dirda's most memorable essays revels in seven years' worth of bibliophilic passion...For any book lover who...doesn't know what to read next, Dirda will provide a lovely and genial guide." "Michael Dirda may be as close to the ideal as we are likely to get." -- Annie Proulx "Michael Dirda is a superb literary essayist, and Readings should provide deep delight for discerning readers." -- Harold Bloom

Intimate, humorous, and insightful, Readings is a collection of classic essays and reviews by Michael Dirda, book critic of the Washington Post and winner of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for criticism. From a first reading of Beckett and Faulkner at the feet of an inspirational high-school English teacher to a meeting of the P. G. Wodehouse Society, from an obsession with Nabokov's Lolita to the discovery of the Japanese epic The Tale of Genji, these essays chronicle a lifetime of literary enjoyment.