Housekeeping vs. the Dirt

Writing Reference

Author: Nick Hornby

In this latest collection of essays following The Polysyllabic Spree, critic and author Nick Hornby continues the feverish survey of his swollen bookshelves, offering a funny, intelligent, and unblinkered account of the stuff he’s been reading. Ranging from the middlebrow to the highbrow (with unrepenting dips into the lowbrow), Hornby’s dispatches from his nightstand tabl….Read More

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