No Common Reader (Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader by Anne Fadiman)
Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader (Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1998) collects eighteen essays by Anne Fadiman about her lifelong love of all things book-related. Whether describing her childhood fascination with sesquipedalians (“long words,” as she explains), or the post-nuptial stress [...]
