Why I Read: The Serious Pleasure of Books (28 page)
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Authors: Wendy Lesser
Village Life, A
(Glück)
Volokhonsky, Larissa
W
Wahlöö, Per
War and Peace
(Tolstoy)
“Waste Land, The” (Eliot)
West, Rebecca
“When I Was Mortal” (Marías)
White Lioness
(Mankell)
Whitman, Walt
Wilder, Thornton
Wild Iris, The
(Glück)
Wild Sheep Chase, A
(Murakami)
Williams, William Carlos
Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, The
(Murakami)
Wings of the Dove, The
(James)
Wire, The
(TV series)
Wizard of Oz, The
(Baum)
Woes of the True Policeman
(Bolaño)
Wolff, Tobias
Wolf Hall
(Mantel)
Woman in White, The
(Collins)
Woolf, Virginia
Wordsworth, William
Y
Your Face Tomorrow
(Marías)
ALSO BY WENDY LESSER
Music for Silenced Voices: Shostakovich and His Fifteen Quartets
Room for Doubt
The Pagoda in the Garden
(a novel)
Nothing Remains the Same: Rereading and Remembering
The Amateur: An Independent Life of Letters
A Director Calls
Pictures at an Execution
His Other Half: Men Looking at Women Through Art
The Life Below the Ground: A Study of the Subterranean in Literature and History
Hiding in Plain Sight: Essays in Criticism and Autobiography
(editor)
The Genius of Language: Fifteen Writers Reflect on Their Mother Tongues
(editor)
A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Wendy Lesser is founder and editor of
The Threepenny Review
. She is the author of eight previous books of nonfiction and one novel. Her most recent book is the prizewinning
Music for Silenced Voices: Shostakovich and His Fifteen String Quartets
. She has written for
The New York Times Book Review
,
The London Review of Books
,
The Times Literary Supplement
, and other publications. She divides her time between Berkeley, California, and New York City.
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
18 West 18th Street, New York 10011
Copyright © 2014 by Wendy Lesser
All rights reserved
First edition, 2014
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Lesser, Wendy.
Why I Read: The Serious Pleasure of Books / Wendy Lesser.
pages cm
Includes index.
ISBN 978-0-374-28920-1 (hardback)
1. Books and reading. 2. Lesser, Wendy—Books and reading. 3. Literature—History and criticism. I. Title.
Z1003 .L543 2014
028'.9—dc23
2013033000
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