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From within a single catalog, a wondrous summer bookshelf
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Katherine A. Powers, a writer and critic, lives in Cambridge. Her
column appears on alternate Sundays.
Generally considered a character fault, bossiness is, in my line
of business, a useful inclination -- and June, especially, brings it
out in fulminate vigor. For in this month it is given to the
professional reader to sort out other people's summer reading. Well,
as Henry Root would say: Let's go!
Who's Henry Root, you ask? He's a Londoner, a semiretired
wet-fish merchant of spe...
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The demise of the common reader
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; Swapan Chakravorty New Straits Times 08-23-2000 The demise of the common reader Byline: Swapan Chakravorty Edition: Life and Times; 2* Section: Literary & Books Column: Text & pretext fortnightly with The Literature Collective MENELIK II, the emperor of Ethiopia, enjoyed chewing pages from
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Sarah Jenkins Column -- AA 'Common' Reader Finds Uncommon Sesquipedalians
Yakima Herald-Republic
; The title of the slim book captured my attention: "Confessions of a Common Reader." My reading habits are nothing if not common. Like Anne Fadiman, the author of the small collection of essays on words and writing, I read anything - cereal boxes, "classics," trade publications, instruction manuals,
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Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
The Virginia Quarterly Review
; Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader, by Anne Fadiman. A bibliophile, nay a bibliomaniac, of unbounded bookishness, the author is no "common reader." Nor is she your run-of-the-mill essayist. Her literary meanderings in the tradition of Montaigne and Lamb are exquisitely wrought, in a word,
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Booksellers and Their Serious Shortcoming
The Washington Post
; Walk the endless corridors of the American Booksellers Association's annual meeting, now being held in the Washington Convention Center, and you will encounter many people and things: "stars" of television and other media hawking "books" they have "written" in collaboration with hired ghosts;
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Why mock the expectation of beauty in art? It is laudable that we want to be impressed
The Independent - London
; A Pissarro or a Pissoir is our theme for today. But first, by way of fortifying our intelligences, the example of Dr Johnson "rejoicing to concur with the common reader" in the matter of that much loved poem "Gray's Elegy" - "for by the common sense of readers, uncorrupted by literary prejudices,
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