The Art And Passion Of Reading Well

We Read To Find Ourselves, More Fully And More Strangely Than Otherwise We Could Hope To Find.

I Realized Early On That The Academy And The Literary World Alike

Not A Moment Passes These Days Without Fresh Rushes Of Academic Lemmings Off The Cliffs They Proclaim The Political Responsibilities Of The Critic, But Eventually All This Moralizing Will Subside.

I Would Say That There Is No Future For Literary Studies As Such In The United States.

Everyone Wants A Prodigy To Fail; It Makes Our Mediocrity More Bearable.