Anne Fadiman

It is a truism of epistolary psychology that, for example, a Christmas thank-you note written on Dec ...

My brother and I were able to fantasize far more extravagantly about our parents' tastes and desires ...

Books wrote our life story, and as they accumulated on our shelves (and on our windowsills, and unde ...

A philosophy professor at my college, whose baby became enamored of the portrait of David Hume on a ...

I, on the other hand, believe that books, maps, scissors, and Scotch tape dispensers are all unrelia ...

For me, literature is a way of enlarging myself by learning about people who are not like me.

We spread our sleeping bags on the snow and crawled inside. The vantage point was dizzying. It was i ...

I am very grateful to the electronic world for making my life easier, but there is something about h ...

To use an electronics analogy, closing a book on a bookmark is like pressing the Stop button, wherea ...

Muses are fickle, and many a writer, peering into the voice, has escaped paralysis by ascribing the ...

I have always felt that the action most worth watching is not at the center of things but where edge ...

Reading aloud means no skipping, no skimming, no cutting to the chase.

If my father were still writing essays, every full-grown 'girl' would probably be transformed into a ...

In my view, nineteen pounds of old books are at least nineteen times as delicious as one pound of fr ...

It has long been my belief that everyone's library contains an Odd Shelf. On this shelf rests a smal ...