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A volume of essays comprised of top-selected pieces from the past decade, it considers a broad range of topics organized under such main categories as "Reading," "Being," "Seeing," and "Feeling." Full description
Table of Contents:
- Reading. Foreword
- F. Kafka, everyman
- What does soulful mean?
- E.M. Forster, middle manager
- Pnin and reality
- The difficult gifts of David Foster Wallace
- Middlemarch and everybody
- Two directions for the novel
- Being. That crafty feeling
- Oliver!
- One week in Liberia
- Speaking in tongues
- Seeing. Hepburn and Garbo
- Bellissima
- At the movies, 2006
- Ten notes on Oscar weekend
- Feeling. Smith family Christmas
- Accidental hero
- Dead man laughing.