num_pages: 153
description: In this latest collection of essays following The Polysyllabic Spree, critic and author Nick Hornby continues the feverish survey of his swollen bookshelves, offering a funny, intelligent, and unblinkered account of the stuff he's been reading. Ranging from the middlebrow to the highbrow (with unrepenting dips into the lowbrow), Hornby's dispatches from his nightstand table serve as useful guides to contemporary letters, with revelations on contemporary culture, the intellectual scene, and English football, in equal measure.
language: English
title: Housekeeping vs. the Dirt
titlecomplete: Housekeeping vs. the Dirt
genres: Essays, Short Stories, Memoir, Literature, Criticism, Books About Books, British Literature, Nonfiction, Literary Criticism, Humor
ratings_count: 2698
series: Stuff I've Been Reading
publisher: McSweeney's