Where Books Fall Open: A Reader's Anthology of Wit & Passion

This is a book about books, about the pleasures, passions, and rewards of reading, about authors dedicated to writing and readers who delight in words in the right order. It contains a rich selection devoted to this seductive subject, from Calvino's meditation on selecting a title in a bookstore to Woolf's essays on the joys of "the common reader," from Schwartz's "Ruined by Reading" to Eco's "How to Organize a Public Library." The book is illuminated by sixteen full-color paintings by Bascove, who here serves as editor, illustrator, and primum mobile. Produced to the highest standards, it is not only a gift for the literary, but also an inducement to the diffident.

• Author
• Bascove, Italo Calvino, Umberto Eco, Dorothy Parker, Robertson Davies, Anne Fadiman, Muriel Rukeyser, Billy Collins, Wisława Szymborska, Anna Akhmatova, Jane Kenyon, Rainer Maria Rilke, Lynne Sharon Schwartz, Qin Zihao, Langston Hughes, Calvin Trillin, Pablo Neruda, Jerome Charyn, T. Coraghessan Boyle, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Xi Murong, Mary Gordon, Jane Hirshfield, Roy Blount Jr., Joyce Carol Oates, Margaret Atwood, Richard Wilbur, Fran Lebowitz, Raymond Carver, Mary Stewart Hammond, Karen Chambers, Charles Simic, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Virginia Woolf

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 149

• Publisher
• David R. Godine Publisher

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9781567922516

• Genres
• poetry, essays

• Release date
• 2006