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Overview: 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.The crime of his life --The quest for Scrivener --Talismans --Maxims, etc. --Heart of the matter --Bookman's Saturday --Supplementary materials --Listening to my father --Romantic scholarship --Weekend with Wodehouse --An abecedary --Mr. Wright --Heian holiday --Childhood's end --The one and the many --Commencement advice --Four novels and a memoir --The October country --Bookish fantasies --Pages on life's way --A garland for Max --Read at whim! --Comedy tonight --Light of other days --Data daze --Four-leaf clovers --Sez who? --Lament for a maker --Clubland --The learning channels --Guy Davenport --Eros by any other name --Frank confessions --Mememormee --Tomes for tots --Three classics --Vacation reading --One more modest proposal --Shake scenes --After strange books --Awful bits --Turning 50 --Blame it on books --On the road not taken --Excursion --Millennial readings

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