Reading Lessons
Each Monday a poet, a novelist, an essayist, a journalist, or a scholar names a book they prize above all others and tells us why.
Previous posts
Knut Hamsun’s Pan
A throbbing world of sensation and heartbreak
by Robert Roper | Monday, March 21, 2016
Henry Beston’s The Outermost House
A parallel world of unknown sensation
by Sy Montgomery | Monday, February 29, 2016
John le Carré’s The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
A literary classic as thrilling as any airport paperback
by Matthew Quirk | Monday, February 22, 2016
Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace
A huge, cinematic narrative
by Larry Woiwode | Monday, February 08, 2016
John Steinbeck’s East of Eden
Literary elegance and a sense of place
by Sally Denton | Monday, January 25, 2016
Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian
A sour vision of beauty and violence
by David Vann | Monday, January 11, 2016
Isaac Babel’s Red Cavalry
A perfect alchemy of language and experience
by Philip Marsden | Monday, January 04, 2016
Richard Hugo’s 31 Letters and 13 Dreams
Missives about real places and authentic people
by Mas Masumoto | Monday, December 28, 2015
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