The Most Wonderful Books
Subtitle: Writers on Discovering the Pleasures of Reading
Contributors: Michael Dorris (Editor); Emilie Buchwald (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Published: August 26, 1997
Place of publication: Minneapolis, MN
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9781571312167
Subjects: Literature - Classics / Criticism; Books & Reading; Literary Criticism; Literary Criticism & Collections / Books & Reading; Authors, American; American authors; Books And Reading
First sentence: I LEARNED TO READ with a Superman comic book.
Table of contents: title: Superman and me / Sherman Alexie; title: We think so then, and we thought so still / Nicholson Baker; title: A more certain alliance / Marion Dane Bauer; title: Infectious reading / Charles Baxter; title: How I was saved / Ethan Canin; title: An appetite as great as any other / Alan Cheuse; title: A few thoughts on pleasure and meaning / Jennifer C Cornell; title: When a picture is worth a thousand words / Ruth Coughlin; title: Stray influences / Charlie D'Ambrosio; title: Making friends with Nancy / Dianne Donovan; title: The outsider / Kathleen Eagle; title: Overbooked / Bob Edwards; title: About reading / Gretel Ehrlich; title: The next book / Barbara Juster Esbensen; title: My life in fiction / Michael Feldman; title: The inwards / Max Garland; title: "It's agony, Betty! Agony!" / David Gates; title: To write--to read and vice versa / Doris Grumbach; title: A letter to Mark Rudman / Thom Gunn; title: Reading, being read to, and reading together / Rachel Hadas; title: Journey of a lifetime / Juanita Havill; title: Kafka & the Titanic / Ursula Hegi; title: More shelf space / Bill Holm; title: The magic of reading / Ellen Howard; title: A house of books: my book house / Susan Kenney; title: Years in the life / Perri Klass; title: First books / Wayne Koestenbaum; title: King: a dog of the north / Ted Kooser; title: In the company of books / Caroline Leavitt; title: Orphans, stalwarts, and plucky girls / Elinor Lipman; title: Reading up / Susan Lowell; title: Apologies of a bookworm / Gregory Maguire; title: Myself reading / J.D. McClatchy; title: Up in the back room / Alyce Miller; title: Confessions of a child reader / Susan Mitchell; title: The fireside book of fire / Lorrie Moore; title: Goodbye, Columbus / David Mura; title: Dolls alive / Cornelia Nixon; title: Bus problems / Howard Norman; title: In my mother's lap / Kathleen Norris; title: Wealthy with words / Naomi Shihab Nye; title: On the way to books / Robert Olmstead; title: Why do I read? / Katherine Paterson; title: Some notes on reading / Robert Pinsky; title: Disorder, sorrow, and early reading / Mark Rudman; title: You with your nose in a book / Marjorie Sandor; title: My back pages / Greg Sarris; title: A platypus in the garden / George Shannon; title: A private addiction / Bapsi Sidhwa; title: Learning to read / Mona Simpson; title: In bed with a book / Debra Spark; title: Janitor's daughter / Scott Spencer; title: Babes in the wood / Faith Sullivan; title: Across the marsh / Jane Resh Thomas; title: Midi / Rosanna Warren; title: The adult section / Larry Watson; title: Traveling in space / Meg Wolitzer