Misreadings (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of Misreadings Saturday, August 1 2009.

• Satirical essays in which Eco pokes fun at the oversophisticated, the overacademic, and the overintellectual and makes penetrating comments about our modern mass culture and the elitist avant-garde. “A scintillating collection of writings” (Los Angeles Times). Translated by William Weaver. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book

Shelfari edited the contributors of Misreadings Sunday, July 26 2009.

• Added a contributor: Umberto Eco: (Primary Author)
• Added a contributor: William Woys Weaver: (Primary None)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of Misreadings Thursday, July 16 2009.

• The present manuscript was given to me by the warden of the local jail in a small town in Piedmont.