Rereadings

9780374530549

First paperback edition

xxi, 244 pages ; 19 cm

Essays previously published in The American scholar, the journal of the Phi Beta Kappa Society

On rereading / foreword by Anne Fadiman
Marginal notes on the inner lives of people with cluttered apartments in the East Seventies (Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger) / David Samuels
Relics of Saint Katherine (The journal, letters, and stories of Katherine Mansfield) / Partricia Hampl
Love's wound, love's salve (Pan by Knut Hamsun) / Sven Birkerts
Whitman's triumph ("Song of myself" by Walt Whitman) / Vijay Seshadri
Kids Roberts and me (The leather pushers by H.C. Witwer) / Arthur Krystal
My life with a field guide (A field guide to wildflowers of northeastern and north-central America by Roger Tory Peterson and Margaret McKenny) / Diana Kappel Smith
A companion of the prophet (Arthur Rimbaud by Enid Starkie) / Luc Sante
Three doctors' daughters (The Sue Barton books by Helen Dore Boylston) / Katherine Ashenburg
"You shall hear of me" (Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad) / Jamie James
Love with a capital L (The vagabond and The Shackle by Colette) / Vivian Gornick
Stead made me do it (House of all nations by Christina Stead) / Michael Upchurch
Pemberley previsited (Pride and prejudice by Jane Austen) / Allegra Goodman
Lawrence by lightning (The virgin and the gypsy by D.H. Lawrence) / Pico Iyer
The ice palace ("The snow queen" by Hans Christian Andersen) / Barbara Sjoholm
Revisiting Brideshead (Brideshead revisited by Evelyn Waugh) / Evelyn Toynton
The pursuit of worldliness (The charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal) / Phillip Lopate
The back of the album (Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band by the Beatles) / David Michaelis

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Fadiman, Anne, 1953- editor