The Book That Changed My Life: The Complete Nonsense of Edward Lear
I first encountered The Complete Nonsense of Edward Lear in 1967. Had it been nothing more than a weirdly illustrated bundle of limericks, it … Read more
The Book That Changed My Life: The Turn of the Screw
When I was a brand-new college student, one of my teachers told me I might like Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw based … Read more
The Book That Changed My Life: A Geography of Subsaharan Africa
In 1964, while a graduate student at Florida State University, I bought a copy of A Geography of Subsaharan Africa, by Harm J. … Read more
A Reader’s Story: Catcher in the Rye
In August of 1988 I was flying home after a summer studying in Italy. I was working through a mild bout of aerophobia … Read more
A Chance Encounter
On our return from our cottage in New Hampshire this past summer, we stopped at a motelin Binghamton, N.Y. for the night. … Read more