Why I Read: The Serious Pleasure of Books

by Wendy Lesser

Book Overview

"Wendy Lesser's extraordinary alertness, intelligence, and curiosity have made her one of America's most significant cultural critics," writes Stephen Greenblatt. In Why I Read , Lesser draws on a lifetime of pleasure reading and decades of editing one of the most distinguished literary magazines in the country, The Threepenny Review , to describe her love of literature. As Lesser writes in her prologue, "Reading can result in boredom or transcendence,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374289204
• ISBN13: 9780374289201
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
• Length: 223 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.6"