Readings Essays Literary Entertainments Author:Michael Dirda Pulitzer-Prize-winning Washington Post columnist Michael Dirda here offers an intriguing selection of his writings across a wide variety of subjects, but all conne to his love of the written word. Personal, erudite, serious, and sometimes playful, these columns cover intellectual history, children's books, fantasy, and crime fiction--and that's ... more »just a start. Dirda is a writer's reader and a reader's writer. He is an impeccable guide to good reading from the light (he loves P. G. Wodehouse) to scholarly esoterica. His columns are always worth a pause, always worth reading, always worth coming back to. This is a book to keep on your bedside for ending the day with pleasurable readings.« less