The Resource Browsings : a year of reading, collecting, and living with books, Michael Dirda
Browsings : a year of reading, collecting, and living with books, Michael Dirda
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The item Browsings : a year of reading, collecting, and living with books, Michael Dirda represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in City Libraries, City of Gold Coast.
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- Summary
- The author shares personal essays on diverse topics ranging from literary pets and cursive writing to book inscriptions and the pleasures of science fiction conventions
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
- Extent
- x, 246 pages
- Contents
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- Mr. Zinsser, I presume
- Style is the man
- Armchair adventures
- Bookish pets
- Paper
- This is a column
- Scribble, scribble
- Books on books
- Text mess
- Twilight of an author
- Spring book sales
- Memories of Marseille
- Hail to thee, blithe spirit!
- Synonym toast
- Cowboys and clubmen
- Grades
- Anglophilia
- After the golden age
- Anthologies and collections
- Rocky Mountain low
- The fugitive
- Hot enough for you?
- Wonder books
- Readercon
- Aurora
- Out of print
- Thrift stories
- Musical chairs
- The evidence in the (book) case
- Charlottesville
- Then and now
- Mencken day
- New and old
- Dirty pictures
- Going, going, gone
- Castles in space
- Waving, not drowning
- Oberlin
- Jacques Barzun, and others
- What's in a name?
- Language matters
- "I'm done"
- Poe and Baudelaire
- In praise of small presses
- Christmas reading
- Books for the holidays
- Let us now praise Dover Books
- A dreamer's tale
- Money
- Book projects
- Ending up
- A positively, final appearance
- Afterword
- Isbn
- 9781605988443
- Label
- Browsings : a year of reading, collecting, and living with books
- Title
- Browsings
- Title remainder
- a year of reading, collecting, and living with books
- Statement of responsibility
- Michael Dirda
- Title variation
- Year of reading, collecting, and living with books
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- The author shares personal essays on diverse topics ranging from literary pets and cursive writing to book inscriptions and the pleasures of science fiction conventions
- Summary
- A latest volume of writings by the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic and <i>Washington Post</i> columnist shares personal essays on diverse topics ranging from literary pets and cursive writing to book inscriptions and the pleasures of science-fiction conventions
- Award
- LibraryReads Favorites, 2015
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10435802
- Cataloging source
- BT
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- Dirda, Michael
- Dewey number
- 028/.9
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- essays
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- True
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- Books and reading
- Target audience
- adult
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- a year of reading, collecting, and living with books
- Label
- Browsings : a year of reading, collecting, and living with books, Michael Dirda
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Contents
- Mr. Zinsser, I presume -- Style is the man -- Armchair adventures -- Bookish pets -- Paper -- This is a column -- Scribble, scribble -- Books on books -- Text mess -- Twilight of an author -- Spring book sales -- Memories of Marseille -- Hail to thee, blithe spirit! -- Synonym toast -- Cowboys and clubmen -- Grades -- Anglophilia -- After the golden age -- Anthologies and collections -- Rocky Mountain low -- The fugitive -- Hot enough for you? -- Wonder books -- Readercon -- Aurora -- Out of print -- Thrift stories -- Musical chairs -- The evidence in the (book) case -- Charlottesville -- Then and now -- Mencken day -- New and old -- Dirty pictures -- Going, going, gone -- Castles in space -- Waving, not drowning -- Oberlin -- Jacques Barzun, and others -- What's in a name? -- Language matters -- "I'm done" -- Poe and Baudelaire -- In praise of small presses -- Christmas reading -- Books for the holidays -- Let us now praise Dover Books -- A dreamer's tale -- Money -- Book projects -- Ending up -- A positively, final appearance -- Afterword
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Edition
- First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
- Extent
- x, 246 pages
- Isbn
- 9781605988443
- Isbn Type
- (hbk.)
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
- n
- Specific material designation
- regular print
- Label
- Browsings : a year of reading, collecting, and living with books, Michael Dirda
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Contents
- Mr. Zinsser, I presume -- Style is the man -- Armchair adventures -- Bookish pets -- Paper -- This is a column -- Scribble, scribble -- Books on books -- Text mess -- Twilight of an author -- Spring book sales -- Memories of Marseille -- Hail to thee, blithe spirit! -- Synonym toast -- Cowboys and clubmen -- Grades -- Anglophilia -- After the golden age -- Anthologies and collections -- Rocky Mountain low -- The fugitive -- Hot enough for you? -- Wonder books -- Readercon -- Aurora -- Out of print -- Thrift stories -- Musical chairs -- The evidence in the (book) case -- Charlottesville -- Then and now -- Mencken day -- New and old -- Dirty pictures -- Going, going, gone -- Castles in space -- Waving, not drowning -- Oberlin -- Jacques Barzun, and others -- What's in a name? -- Language matters -- "I'm done" -- Poe and Baudelaire -- In praise of small presses -- Christmas reading -- Books for the holidays -- Let us now praise Dover Books -- A dreamer's tale -- Money -- Book projects -- Ending up -- A positively, final appearance -- Afterword
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Edition
- First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
- Extent
- x, 246 pages
- Isbn
- 9781605988443
- Isbn Type
- (hbk.)
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
- n
- Specific material designation
- regular print
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