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A volume of essays is comprised of top-selected pieces from the past decade and considers a broad range of topics organized under such main categories as "Reading," "Being," "Seeing," and "Feeling." Full description
Table of Contents:
- Foreword
- Reading. Their eyes were watching God: what does soulful mean? ; E.M. Forster, middle manager ; Middlemarch and everybody ; Rereading Barthes and Nobokov ; F. Kafka, everyman ; Two directions for the novel
- Being. That crafty feeling ; One week in Liberia ; Speaking in tongues
- Seeing. Hepburn and Garbo
- Notes on Visconti's Bellissima ; At the multiplex, 2006 ; Ten notes on Oscar weekend
- Feeling. Smith family Christmas ; Accidental hero ; Dead man laughing
- Remembering. Brief interviews with hideous men: the difficult gifts of David Foster Wallace.