Browsings: A Year of Reading, Collecting, and Living with Books

by Michael Dirda

Book Overview

Dirda's latest volume collects fifty of his witty and wide-ranging reflections on literary journalism, book collecting, and the writers he loves. Reaching from the classics to the post-moderns, his allusions dance from Samuel Johnson, Ralph Waldo Emerson and M. F. K. Fisher to Marilynne Robinson, Hunter S. Thompson, and David Foster Wallace. Dirda's topics are equally diverse: literary pets, the lost art of cursive writing, book inscriptions, the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1605988448
• ISBN13: 9781605988443
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: Pegasus Books
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.0"