Michael Dirda
The Complete Browsings
Michael Dirda’s “Browsings: A Year of Reading, Collecting and Living with Books” will be published in book form in 2015.
- A Positively, Final Appearance
- Ending Up
- Book Projects
- Money
- A Dreamer’s Tale
- Let Us Now Praise Dover Books
- Books for the Holidays
- Christmas Reading
- In Praise of Small Presses
- Poe and Baudelaire
- “I’m Done”
- Language Matters
- What’s in a Name?
- Jacques Barzun—and Others
- Oberlin
- Waving Not Drowning
- Castles in Space
- Going, Going, Gone
- Dirty Pictures
- New and Old
- Mencken Day
- Then and Now
- Charlottesville
- The Evidence in the (Book) Case
- Musical Chairs
- Thrift Stories
- Out of Print
- Aurora
- Readercon
- Wonder Books
- Hot Enough for You?
- The Fugitive
- Rocky Mountain Low
- Anthologies and Collections
- After the Golden Age
- Anglophilia
- Grades
- Cowboys and Clubmen
- Synonym Toast
- Hail to Thee, Blithe Spirit!
- Memories of Marseille
- Spring Book Sales
- Twilight of an Author
- Text Mess
- Books on Books
- Scribble, Scribble
- This Is a Column
- Paper
- Bookish Pets
- Armchair Adventures
- Style Is the Man
- Mr. Zinsser, I Presume
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Joyas Voladoras
By By Brian Doyle
Brian Doyle, who died on May 27, once wrote that “the biggest heart in the world is inside the blue whale.” After reading years of his writing, including almost 200 of his “Epiphanies,” we’re not so sure. Rest in peace, Brian. Your heart held so much in this lifetime.
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