Readings

Intimate humorous and insightful Readings is a collection of classic essays and reviews by Michael Dirda book critic of the Washington Post and winner of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for criticism. From a first reading of Beckett and Faulkner at the feet of an inspirational high-school English teacher to a meeting of the P. G. Wodehouse Society from an obsession with Nabokov's Lolita to the discovery of the Japanese epic The Tale of Genji these essays chronicle a lifetime of literary enjoyment.