Book Rec of the Day 4/16/2007

“It began, as things often do for me, with Henry James.”

Lesser, editor of the literary magazine The Threepenny Review returns to her bookshelves and rereads, after a break of twenty or thirty years, books that had once made an impression upon her. She finds to her astonishment that books change. As Lesser plunges deeper into her shelves, she delves deeper into her own soul, and ends up learning as much about herself as she does about Anna Karenina, George Orwell, Wordsworth, Shakespeare, and others. A marvelous, moving journey of discovery.

NOTHING REMAINS THE SAME: REREADING AND REMEMBERING, by Wendy Lesser (Mariner Books, 2003)