A Passion for Books

A Book Lover's Treasury of Stories, Essays, Humor, Lore, and Lists on Collecting, Reading, Borrowing, Lending, Caring for, and Appreciating Books

by John Updike, Harold Rabinowitz, Rob Kaplan, Debbie Glasserman, Clifton Fadiman, John S. Major, George Hamlin Fitch, Gustave Flaubert, Roger Rosenblatt, Solly Ganor, John Milton, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Jonathan Yardley, Robert B. Downs, Michel de Montaigne, Robertson Davies, John Michell, A. Edward Newton, William Keddie, Henry Ward Beecher, Anna Quindlen, A.S.W. Rosenbach, Al Silverman, Ray Bradbury, Francesco Petrarca, Ben D. Zevin, William Dana Orcutt, William Targ, Philip Roth, Robert Benchley, Holbrook Jackson, Herbert Faulkner West, Estelle Ellis, Christopher Morley, Caroline Seebohm, Edward Robb Ellis, Walter Benjamin, Stuart Brent, Anatole Broyard, Nicholas A. Basbanes, Susan Sontag, Umberto Eco