What could be as entertaining as reading one author tear a strip off another? Well, actually, I can think of a lot of things at least as entertaining, if not more so. But this collection of quotes, reviews and thoughts by authors about other authors, from the classics through to modern fiction, i...
This book takes a number of famous titles and discuss the reasons behind the title. Kinda comforting to know that several books that are quite iconic went through a number of name changes before becoming the titles we know. Sometimes it more goes into the background of the novel rather than the ti...
It seems that the essays here were originally published as installments in Dexter's column about books. It shows, mostly in just how short and to the point the essays are. This is the sort of book that can be read in tiny chunks, or read all at once, as I did. The best essays for me were, of course,...