Ebook: Rereadings: Seventeen writers revisit books they love

On rereading / foreword by Anne Fadiman -- Marginal notes on the inner lives of people with cluttered apartments in the East Seventies (Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger) / David Samuels -- Relics of Saint Katherine (The journal, letters, and stories of Katherine Mansfield) / Patricia Hampl -- Love's wound, love's salve (Pan by Knut Hamsun) / Sven Birkerts -- Whitman's triumph ("Song of myself" by Walt Whitman) / Vijay Seshadri -- Kids Roberts and me (The leather pushers by H.C. Witwer) / Arthur Krystal -- My life with a field guide (A field guide to wildflowers of northeastern and north-central America by Roger Tory Peterson and Margaret McKenny) / Diana Kappel Smith -- A companion of the prophet (Arthur Rimbaud by Enid Starkie) / Luc Sante -- Three doctors' daughters (The Sue Barton books by Helen Dore Boylston) / Katherine Ashenburg -- "You shall hear of me" (Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad) / Jamie James -- Love with a capital L (The vagabond and The Shackle by Colette) / Vivian Gornick -- Stead made me do it (House of all nations by Christina Stead) / Michael Upchurch -- Pemberley previsited (Pride and prejudice by Jane Austen) / Allegra Goodman -- Lawrence by lightning (The virgin and the gypsy by D.H. Lawrence) / Pico Iyer -- The ice palace ("The snow queen" by Hans Christian Andersen) / Barbara Sjoholm -- Revisiting Brideshead (Brideshead revisited by Evelyn Waugh) / Evelyn Toynton -- The pursuit of worldliness (The charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal) / Phillip Lopate -- The back of the album (Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band by the Beatles) / David Michaelis.;Answering the question "is a book the same the second time around?" this collection of essays includes contributions from Sven Krkerts, Allegra Goodman, Vivian Gornick, Patricia Hampl, Phillip Lopate, and Luc Sante, among others.