Changing my mind : occasional essays /
A volume of essays is comprised of top-selected pieces from the past decade and considers a broad range of topics organized under such main categories as "Reading," "Being," "Seeing," and "Feeling."
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New York :
Penguin Press,
2009.
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Table of Contents:
- Reading. Their eyes were watching God : what does soulful mean?
- E.M. Forster, middle manager
- Middlemarch and everybody
- Rereading Barthes and Nabokov
- F. Kafka, everyman
- Two directions for the novel
- Being. That crafty feeling
- One week in Liberia
- Speaking in tongues
- Seeing. Hepburn and Garbo
- Notes on Visconti's Bellissima
- At the multiplex, 2006
- Ten notes on Oscar weekend
- Feeling. Smith family Christmas
- Accidental hero
- Dead man laughing
- Remembering. Brief interviews with hideous men : the difficult gifts of David Foster Wallace.