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A reader's book of days : true tales from the lives and works of writers for every day of the year / Tom Nissley ; with illustrations by Joanna Neborsky.

by Nissley, Tom, 1967-

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W. W. Norton & Co., c2014.

Literature -- Miscellanea.

Literature -- History and criticism.

Books and reading.

xv, 448 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Includes index.

"A witty and addictively readable day-by-day literary companion. At once a love letter to literature and a charming guide to the books most worth reading, this book features bite-size accounts of events in the lives of great authors for every day of the year. Here is Marcel Proust starting In Search of Lost Time and Virginia Woolf scribbling in the margin of her own writing, 'Is it nonsense, or is it brilliance?' Fictional events that take place within beloved books are also included: the birth of Harry Potter's enemy Draco Malfoy, the blood-soaked prom in Stephen King's Carrie. Filled with memorable and surprising tales from the lives and works of Martin Amis, Jane Austen, James Baldwin, Roberto Bolaño, the Brontë sisters, Junot Díaz, Philip K. Dick, Charles Dickens, Joan Didion, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Keats, Hilary Mantel, Haruki Murakami, Flannery O’Connor, Orhan Pamuk, George Plimpton, Marilynne Robinson, W. G. Sebald, Dr. Seuss, Zadie Smith, Susan Sontag, Hunter S. Thompson, Leo Tolstoy, David Foster Wallace, and many more. The book notes the days on which famous authors were born and died; it includes lists of recommended reading for every month of the year as well as snippets from book reviews as they appeared across literary history; and throughout there are wry illustrations by acclaimed artist Joanna Neborsky. Brimming with nearly 2,000 stories"--Provided by publisher.

Neborsky, Joanna.

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