Where Books Fall Open: A Reader's Anthology of Wit & PassionThis is a book about books, about the pleasures, passions, and rewards of reading, about authors dedicated to writing and readers who delight in words in the right order. It contains a rich selection devoted to this seductive subject, from Calvino's meditation on selecting a title in a bookstore to Woolf's essays on the joys of "the common reader," from Schwartz's "Ruined by Reading" to Eco's "How to Organize a Public Library." The book is illuminated by sixteen full-color paintings by Bascove, who here serves as editor, illustrator, and primum mobile. Produced to the highest standards, it is not only a gift for the literary, but also an inducement to the diffident. |
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... story on Public Radio emerges from the wallpaper of music . Our eyes lock , listening . Listening we watch the story in the other's eyes , see each word come at the same time . Night swallows the walls of the room . The story ends . We ...
... story on Public Radio emerges from the wallpaper of music . Our eyes lock , listening . Listening we watch the story in the other's eyes , see each word come at the same time . Night swallows the walls of the room . The story ends . We ...
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... story : the high - polished floor , the rap of the heels , a stir of seductive curtains at the window , the moon curved small as a fingernail . If you lean out the window to seize the moon : a story , an ancient story , teeth sinking in ...
... story : the high - polished floor , the rap of the heels , a stir of seductive curtains at the window , the moon curved small as a fingernail . If you lean out the window to seize the moon : a story , an ancient story , teeth sinking in ...
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... Story Line Press . Reprinted by permission of the author and Story Line Press . Josephine Jacobson : “ Gentle Reader ” , from In the Crevice of Time : New and Collected Poems . Copyright © 1995 by Josephine Jacobson . Reprinted with the ...
... Story Line Press . Reprinted by permission of the author and Story Line Press . Josephine Jacobson : “ Gentle Reader ” , from In the Crevice of Time : New and Collected Poems . Copyright © 1995 by Josephine Jacobson . Reprinted with the ...
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