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Description
A Pulitzer Prize–winning critic’s often surprising meditation on those places where life and books intersect and what might be learned from both Once out of school, most of us read for pleasure.Yet there is another equally important, though often overlooked, reason that we read: to learn... read more
First Sentence
Much of Book by Book has been gleaned from a small notebook into which I have copied striking quotations and passages from my reading.
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Authors & Contributors
- Michael Dirda (Author)
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