![]() ![]() Reading Like a Writer is a detail-oriented meditation on the subtle and undervalued craft of good reading. Not enough can be said about the way we read, and how it connects not only to the way we write, but also to the way we live. ![]() ![]() Francine Prose, like Jane Smiley, is perhaps best known as a fiction writer - she’s the author of The Blue Angel and Household Saints, among other well-received novels - so my initial concern was that, coming so close on the heels of the Smiley book, Reading Like a Writer might be redundant. I recently had the pleasure of reviewing 13 Ways of Looking at the Novel by Jane Smiley, in which, stymied by the frustrations of her latest work, Smiley recounts her decision to shut down her laptop, put her feet up, and re-read 100 of her all-time favorite novels. This genre has, in the last few years, developed so rapidly that a new example seems to appear on the shelves every month. There are more books around today than ever before - so many, in fact, that a whole genre of books about reading has emerged just to help us make sense of them all. Whoever predicted the death of the book couldn’t have been more wrong. ![]()
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