Dirda, Michael

Collects fifty of Michael Dirda's witty and wide-ranging reflections on literary journalism, book collecting, and the writers he loves. Reaching from the classics to the post-moderns, his allusions go from Samuel Johnson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and M.F.K. Fisher to Marilynne Robinson, Hunter S. Thompson and David Foster Wallace.

Pulitzer Prize-winning literary critic Michael Dirda discusses the appeal of classic works in a variety of genres by approximately ninety authors, including ones often left out of the canon.

Literary journalist Michael Dirda reflects on how books, comics, poetry, and adventures stories shaped his life, recalling the fictional characters and assorted literature that fueled his mind as a child.

Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Michael Dirda reveals how the written word informs and enriches nearly every aspect of life and explains how people can draw meaning from the words they read.