![]() ![]() ![]() In “Never Do That to a Book,” she comments on hard uses made of books: how we’re wont to scribble in them, even teethe on them. And her book shows an impish range in subject. As a reporter who is here making a transition to the first-person essayist’s voice, Fadiman (also the new editor of the American Scholar) maintains a sparkling sense of story, whether the stories tell us about her or about someone else. ![]() An essay about the devoted reader’s compulsive love of proofreading opens novelistically with the Fadiman parents and their adult children sitting down to a restaurant dinner and, as their preferred first course, passionately-helplessly?-correcting the menu’s typos. And part of the charm of these collected personal essays about books and book-loving is the way she adhesively, casually, playfully chronicles her family through its books and bibliomania. Award-winning journalist and editor Fadiman (The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, 1997) comes from a bookish family (her father is Clifton Fadiman). ![]()
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