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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Page 57
... Writing a poem , which I rarely do . Both the place where I write and what I am writing are a way of getting back ... written as I looked . I ought to be longing for spring , but it is winter light I find the most congenial . It has ...
... Writing a poem , which I rarely do . Both the place where I write and what I am writing are a way of getting back ... written as I looked . I ought to be longing for spring , but it is winter light I find the most congenial . It has ...
Page 70
... Writing High . At Writing High the student will be among his own kind - the ungrateful . He will be offered a broad range of subjects relevant to his needs : Beginning Badly , Avoiding Los Angeles One and Too , Remedial Wake- fulness ...
... Writing High . At Writing High the student will be among his own kind - the ungrateful . He will be offered a broad range of subjects relevant to his needs : Beginning Badly , Avoiding Los Angeles One and Too , Remedial Wake- fulness ...
Page 102
... written up in all those rooms , too humble to be called libraries , yet full of books , where the pursuit of reading ... writing . He never ceases , as he reads , to run up some rickety and ramshackle fabric which shall give him the ...
... written up in all those rooms , too humble to be called libraries , yet full of books , where the pursuit of reading ... writing . He never ceases , as he reads , to run up some rickety and ramshackle fabric which shall give him the ...
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