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But Fadiman is another excellent suggestion – those essays were just a joy and well worth a reread.
Don’t Go Down To The Woods « Tales from the Reading Room 2009
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I do love good books about books, and while it would be very hard to live up to what Anne Fadiman does, even not quite as good as Fadiman is still potentially very good.
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The Fadiman is perfect, there’s no getting away from it.
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I have to say that Fadiman is the better essayist; I’ve yet to come across any one writing as well as she does about book lust, but for anyone who loved Ex Libris and has been searching for something similar, I would certainly recommend it.
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He has inspired hundreds of articles, books and dissertations, and drawn the attention of men of letters of the caliber of Clifton Fadiman and Carey
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Clifton Fadiman evaluates with a slightly different emphasis, "He helped blaze the trail for later and doubtless better realists."
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But this likely qualifies as the "petty snobbery" Clifford Fadiman referred to in his introduction to "Good Books," a 1982 compendium edited by Steven Gilbar.
'Best of' Lists Cynthia Crossen 2011
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Before Somerset Maugham and Clifton Fadiman blew the top off my taste for fact, and replaced it with a hunger for fiction.
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Before Somerset Maugham and Clifton Fadiman blew the top off my taste for fact, and replaced it with a hunger for fiction.
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Another writer who should appeal to anyone who enjoys reading, never mind what, is Anne Fadiman.
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