If A Book Is Really Good, It

Ruefulness Is One Of The Classical Tones Of American Fiction. It Fosters A Native, Deglamorized Form Of Anxiety.

The More I Like A Book, The More Slowly I Read. This Spontaneous Talking Back To A Book Is One Of The Things That Makes Reading So Valuable.

An Aphorism Is A Generalization Of Sorts, And Our Present-day Writers Seem More At Home With The Particular.

Paranoids Are The Only Ones Who Notice Things Anymore.

The Contents Of Someone's Bookcase Are Part Of His History, Like An Ancestral Portrait.