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December 13, 2019
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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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