AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to over 30 million articles from top publications available through your library.
Create a link to this page
Copy and paste this link tag into your Web page or blog:
Summer reading.(Book Review)
Michael Dirda Bound to Please: An Extraordinary One-Volume Literary Education. W. W. Norton, 556 pages, $29.95
The sortes Virgilianae is an old form of do-it-yourself divination: you open the Aeneid at random, put a finger on a verse, and therein find wisdom or solace tailored to your troubles. For the bored or "blocked" man of letters, Michael Dirda's collection Bound to Please has a similarly tonic effect. It includes a hundred-odd of Dirda's reviews--of books, yes, but also of the minds behind the books. Pick one at random. Depending on whether you know the work discussed, you'll receive a thoughtful reconsideration or, perhaps more fun, an enthusiastic ...
- Get your nose out of that book; Michael Dirda's father just wanted him to do...
- Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor October 16, 2003 700+ words
...Yet this is the journey taken by Michael Dirda. It's also the attraction of...resounding no. As such, it takes Dirda's journey from reader to writer...Memoirs of College Students.' By Michael Dirda W.W. Norton 335 pp., $24...
- Want a better life? Crack a few of these books. Washington Post critic Michael...
- Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor May 2, 2006 700+ words
Byline: Marjorie Kehe Michael Dirda's life story is one that ought to...downtrodden, rust-bucket Ohio burg, Dirda's academic life could hardly have...substandard intelligence. Today, Dirda reigns as one of the premiere book...
- Bookish lives: reader's memoirs.(An Open Book: Coming of Age in the...
- Magazine article from: The Christian Century Bush, Trudy May 18, 2004 700+ words
An Open Book: Coming of Age in the Heartland. By Michael Dirda. Norton, 320 pp., $24.95. So Many Books, So...culture that supposedly discourages serious reading. Michael Dirda's An Open Book: Coming of Age in the Heartland and...
- Minor classics.(Classics for Pleasure)(Book review)
- Magazine article from: The Christian Century Doyle, Brian July 15, 2008 700+ words
Classics for Pleasure. By Michael Dirda. Harcourt, 352 pp., $25.00. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Mea culpa. I opened Michael Dirda's book with a sigh, expecting a primer, a handbook...
- `Book by Book': Author's scrapbook of personal musings is more scraps than book.
- Newspaper article from: Dallas Morning News (Dallas, TX) July 26, 2006 700+ words
...Book by Book: Notes on Reading and Life'' by Michael Dirda; Henry Holt ($17) ___ A hundred and more years...In ``Book by Book: Notes on Reading and Life,'' Michael Dirda, Pulitzer-winning books columnist of The Washington...
- New Year's resolutions for readers: Some new books can help you set a reading...
- Newspaper article from: San Jose Mercury News (San Jose, CA) December 29, 2004 700+ words
...Extraordinary One-Volume Literary Education'' by Michael Dirda; Norton ($29.95) ``Shakespeare After All...collection of literary essays, mostly book reviews, by Michael Dirda, a Pulitzer Prize-winning book critic for the Washington...
- A critic tells all; Lured from Lorain by books.(BOOKS)(ON BOOKS)
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times October 26, 2003 700+ words
...Carol Herman, THE WASHINGTON TIMES Michael Dirda, staff writer and senior editor...time followed the doings at Mr. Dirda's shop - known lovingly in these...I have also kept my eyes on Mr. Dirda. It was therefore with no small...
- In search of a good read?(FEATURES)(BOOKS)(Book review)
- Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor McAlpin, Heller November 13, 2007 700+ words
Byline: Heller McAlpin Michael Dirda, a longtime book critic for the Washington...name from deadly school assignments, Dirda starts out somewhat defensively. He...they prefer. More significantly, Dirda refrains from rounding up the usual...
Source: HighBeam Research, Summer reading.(Book Review)