e-branch	Login My List - 0 Help
	Home   My Account/Renew Loans   Community Info   KidSearch   New Catalogue!

Search Advanced By Format By Number My Searches Can't Find it? Find Magazine Articles & more Problems?

Search:  Title Starts with...Title Keyword(s)Author/Performer/Name (Last,First)Author/Performer/Name Keyword(s)Subject Starts with...Subject Keyword(s)Series Starts with...Series Keyword(s)Anyword/AnywhereList Name Keyword(s)       Refine Search     > You're searching: Halifax Public Libraries

Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Dirda, Michael.     Subjects     Dirda, Michael -- Books and reading.     Books and reading.     Reading interests.     Books -- Reviews.     Canon (Literature)     Literature -- History and criticism.     Journalists -- United States -- 21st century -- Anecdotes.     Critics -- United States -- Essays.     Authors, American -- 2lst century -- Essays.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Dirda, Michael.       by title:      Browsings : a year o...       by call number:      028.9 D598b     Search the Web     Dirda, Michael.     Dirda, Michael -- Books and reading.     Books and reading.     Reading interests.     Books -- Reviews.     Canon (Literature)     Literature -- History and criticism.     Journalists -- United States -- 21st century -- Anecdotes.     Critics -- United States -- Essays.     Authors, American -- 2lst century -- Essays.       MARC Display

Browsings : a year of reading, collecting, and living with books / Michael Dirda. by Dirda, Michael. Pegasus Books, 2015. Call #: 028.9 D598b Subjects Dirda, Michael -- Books and reading.   Books and reading.   Reading interests.   Books -- Reviews.   Canon (Literature)   Literature -- History and criticism.   Journalists -- United States -- 21st century -- Anecdotes.   Critics -- United States -- Essays.   Authors, American -- 2lst century -- Essays. ISBN:  9781605988443 (hc.) 1605988448 (hc.) Alternate title:  Year of reading, collecting, and living with books Description:  x, 246 pages ; 24 cm Notes:  "Winner of the Pulitzer Prize"--Cover. Contents:  Mr. Zinsser, I presume -- Style is the man -- Armchair adventures -- Bookish pets -- Paper -- This is a column -- Scribble, scribble -- Books on books -- Text mess -- Twilight of an author -- Spring book sales -- Memories of Marseille -- Hail to thee, blithe spirit! -- Synonym toast -- Cowboys and clubmen -- Grades -- Anglophilia -- After the golden age -- Anthologies and collections -- Rocky Mountain low -- The fugitive -- Hot enough for you? -- Wonder books -- Readercon -- Aurora -- Out of print -- Thrift stories -- Musical chairs -- The evidence in the (book) case -- Charlottesville -- Then and now -- Mencken day -- New and old -- Dirty pictures -- Going, going, gone -- Castles in space -- Waving, not drowning -- Oberlin -- Jacques Barzun, and others -- What's in a name? -- Language matters -- "I'm done" -- Poe and Baudelaire -- In praise of small presses -- Christmas reading -- Books for the holidays -- Let us now praise Dover Books -- A dreamer's tale -- Money -- Book projects -- Ending up -- A positively, final appearance -- Afterword. Summary:  "In addition to the Pulitzer Prize Michael Dirda was awarded for his reviews in The Washington Post, he picked up an Edgar from the Mystery Writers of America for his most recent book, On Conan Doyle. This volume collects fifty of his witty and wide-ranging reflections on literary journalism, book collecting, and the writers he loves. Reaching from the classics to the post-moderns, his allusions dance from Samuel Johnson, Ralph Waldo Emerson and M. F. K. Fisher to Marilynne Robinson, Hunter S. Thompson, and David Foster Wallace. Dirda's topics are equally diverse: literary pets, the lost art of cursive writing, book inscriptions, the pleasures of science fiction conventions, author photographs, novelists in old age, Oberlin College, a year in Marseille, writer's block, and much more, not to overlook a few rants about Washington life and American culture. As admirers of his earlier books will expect, there are annotated lists galore -- of perfect book titles, great adventure novels, favorite words, essential books about books, and beloved children's classics, as well as a revealing peek at the titles Michael keeps on his own nightstand. Michael Dirda is a Pulitzer Prize-winning critic and longtime book columnist for The Washington Post. His previous publications include the memoir An Open Book, four collections of essays -- Readings, Bound to Please, Book by Book, and Classics for Pleasure, and On Conan Doyle"--Provided by publisher. Genre:  Essays. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Nonfiction 028.9 D598b Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

Horizon Information Portal 3.24_8902M

© 2001-2013 SirsiDynix All rights reserved.