Reviews | March 01, 2010
Obession as Mythmaking: Six Books About Books
Anthony Aycock
Featuring reviews of:
- The Book of William: How Shakespeare’s First Folio Conquered the World by Paul Collins
- Anne Frank: The Book, the Life, the Afterlife by Francine Prose
- Reading the OED: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages by Ammon Shea
- Stylized: A Slightly Obsessive History of Strunk & White’s The Elements of Style by Mark Garvey
- U and I by Nicholson Baker
- Frankenstein: A Cultural History by Susan Hitchcock
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