A Reader's Book Of Days: True Tales From The Lives And Works Of Writers For Every Day Of The Year
by Tom Nissley
Buy on AmazonBook connoisseur Tom Nissley has combed literary history to capture the stories that make writers' lives perennially fascinating: their epiphanies, embarrassments and achievements. Each handsome page in A Reader's Book of Days is devoted to a day of the year, featuring original accounts of events in the lives of great writers, and fictional events that took place within beloved books.
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"Jeopardy! champ Tom Nissley has created the world’s least useful, most wonderful reference book, a masterpiece with a wry sensibility. He seems to have read every interesting book ever published — did he have an army of elves to assist him? Does he sleep? Somehow, he’s gathered a half-dozen literary tidbits tied to every day of the year — scenes and plot fragments from innumerable novels, biting or admiring passages from long-forgotten reviews, significant dates from biographies. Whether you browse at random or read a page a day, this book will delight — and seriously up your literary nerd cred."
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