Lauren Leto
Want to impress the hot stranger at the bar who asks for your take on ,Infinite Jest,? Dying to shut up the blowhard in front of you whoâ€™s pontificating on Cormac McCarthyâ€™s â€œrecurring road narrativesâ€? Having difficulty keeping Francine Prose and Annie Proulx straight?,For all those overwhelmed readers who need to get a firm grip on the relentless onslaught of must-read books to stay on top of the inevitable conversations that swirl around them, Lauren Letoâ€™s ,Judging a Book by Its Lover, is manna from literary heaven! A hilarious send-up ofâ€”and inspired homage toâ€”the passionate and peculiar world of book culture, this guide to literary debate leaves no reader or author unscathed, at once adoring and skewering everyone from Jonathan Franzen to Ayn Rand to Dostoyevsky and the people who read them.
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Judging a Book by Its Lover: A Field Guide to the Hearts and Minds of Readers Everywhere