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　　THE LIBRARY OF CONTEMPORARY THOUGHT is a groundbreaking series

where America's finest writers and most brilliant minds tackle

today's most provocative, fascinating, and relevant issues.

Striking and daring, creative and important, these original voices

on matters political, social, economic, and cultural, will

enlighten, comfort, entertain, enrage, and ignite healthy debate

across the country.

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　　Anna Quindlen is the author of two bestselling novels, Object

Lessons and One True Thing. Her New York Times column "Public and

Private won a Pulitzer Prize in 1992, and a selection of these

columns was published as Thinking Out Loud. She is also the author

of a collection of the "Life in the '30s columns, Living Out Loud,

and two children's books, The Tree That Came to Stay and Happily

Ever After.

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　　A recurring theme throughout Anna Quindlen's How Reading

Changed My Life is the comforting premise that readers are never

alone. "There was waking, and there was sleeping. And then there

were books," she writes, "a kind of parallel universe in which

anything might happen and frequently did, a universe in which I

might be a newcomer but never really a stranger. My real, true

world." Later, she quotes editor Hazel Rochman: "Reading makes

immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but, most

important, it finds homes for us everywhere." Indeed, Quindlen's

essays are full of the names of "friends," real or fictional--Anne

of Green Gables and Heidi; Anthony Trollope and Jane Austen, to

name just a few--who have comforted, inspired, educated, and

delighted her throughout her life. In four short essays Quindlen

shares her thoughts on the act of reading itself ("It is like the

rubbing of two sticks together to make a fire, the act of reading,

an improbable pedestrian task that leads to heat and light");

analyzes the difference between how men and women read ("there are

very few books in which male characters, much less boys, are

portrayed as devoted readers"); and cheerfully defends middlebrow

literature:

Most of those so-called middlebrow readers would have readily

admitted that the Iliad set a standard that could not be matched by

What Makes Sammy Run? or Exodus. But any reader with common sense

would also understand intuitively, immediately, that such

comparisons are false, that the uses of reading are vast and

variegated and that some of them are not addressed by Homer.

　　The Canon, censorship, and the future of publishing, not to

mention that of reading itself, are all subjects Quindlen addresses

with intelligence and optimism in a book that may not change your

life, but will no doubt remind you of other books that did. --Alix

Wilber

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THE LIBRARY OF CONTEMPORARY THOUGHT is a groundbreaking series where America's finest writers and most brilliant minds tackle today's most provocative, fascinating, and relevant issues. Striking and daring, creative and important, these original voices on matters political, social, economic, and cultural, will enlighten, comfort, entertain, enrage, and ignite healthy debate across the country.