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Book Giveaway! Reading Style: A Life in Sentences, by Jenny Davidson
This week our featured book is Reading Style: A Life in Sentences, by Jenny Davidson.
In addition to features on our blog, we will also be posting about the book on twitter, and facebook.
We are also offering a FREE copy of Reading Style to a lucky winner. To enter the contest please e-mail pl2164@columbia.edu and include your name and address. The winner will be selected Friday, June 27 at 1:00 pm.
“Jenny Davidson has the rare gift of being warmly analytical—highly intelligent but never mandarin, authoritative and intimate at the same time. Reading her discussions of writers ranging from Marcel Proust to Wayne Koestenbaum—by way of Jonathan Lethem and George Eliot—is like being in the company of a very clever friend as she unfolds the treasures of her bookshelf.” — Rebecca Mead, author of My Life in Middlemarch
Read the chapter, “Lord Leighton, Liberace, and the Advantages of Bad Writing: Helen DeWitt, Harry Stephen Keller, Lionel Shriver, George Eliot”:
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In my copy of Reading Style the Notes for Chapter 6 are missing. Or am I missing something?
We are terribly sorry about the missing notes! We have corrected this issue in the second printing and the ebook. Please contact us for more information.