Writers on Reading

The Complete Reading Lessons

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Poets, novelists, essayists, journalists, and scholars name a book they prize above all others and tell us why.


Favorite books from David Huddle, Sy Montgomery, Andrea Barrett, Willard Spiegelman, Sissela Bok, Hannah Pittard, Craig Nova, James Santel, Louis P. Masur, Sierra Bellows, Bethany Vaccaro, Martha McPhee, Will Boast, S. C. Gwynne, Neil Shea, Bruce Falconer, Aaron Sachs, Robert Roper, Ernest B. Furgurson, Stephen Goodwin, George O’Brien, Emily Fox Gordon, Rob Gurwitt, Anka Muhlstein, Thomas Chatterton Williams, Nathaniel Rich, Sudip Bose, Sheila Kohler, Thomas Laqueur, Alix Christie, Clay Risen, Fergus M. Bordewich, Ingrid D. Rowland, Dennis Covington, Elaine Showalter, Charlotte Salley, Sridhar Pappu, Mas Masumoto, Philip Marsden, David Vann, Sally Denton, Alison Case, Larry Woiwode, and Matthew Quirk.

 


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