An Open Book, Michael Dirda
An Open Book, Michael Dirda
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An Open Book

Author: Michael Dirda

Narrator: Jonathan Hogan

Unabridged: 11 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 06/06/2008


Synopsis

Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Dirda shares his love for all literature-novels, comic books, poetry, even erotica-in this humorous memoir of his childhood. Growing up in a bluecollar, Midwestern household of the 50s and 60s, Dirda appalled his father with his insatiable thirst for reading. His humorous remembrances of the works he loved will spark the interest of anyone who savors a good story.

About Michael Dirda

Michael Dirda is a Pulitzer Prize–winning critic and longtime book columnist for the Washington Post. He was once chosen by Washingtonian magazine as one of the twenty-five smartest people in our nation’s capital. He also writes regularly for the Times Literary Supplement, the New York Review of Books, and other literary journals. He is the author of the memoir An Open Book; the essay collections Readings, Bound to Please, Book by Book, and Classics for Pleasure; and On Conan Doyle, for which he won an Edgar Award. A lifelong Sherlock Holmes and Conan Doyle fan, he was inducted into the Baker Street Irregulars in 2002. He lives in Silver Spring, Maryland.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Emily

As a longtime fan of Michael Dirda's work in The Washington Post Bookworld, I'm glad I've finally read this memoir of his early years growing up in the steel town of Lorraine, Ohio, albeit some twenty years after it was published. Lots of reviewers have commented that they prefer the first half, and......more

When I was a girl I recall putting a towel under the bathroom door and duct tape at the corners to be able to sit on the floor and read a book all night. My father would enforce lights out, but this trick allowed me to finish beloved stacks from the library ( we were too poor to purchase novels). I l......more