Anne Fadiman is the author of The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, winner of a National Book Critics Circle Award, an L.A. Times Book Prize, and a Salon Book Award. She is also the author of two essay collections, At Large and At Small and Ex Libris. Her essays and articles have appeared in Harper's, The New Yorker, and The New York Times, among other publications. She is the Francis Writer-in-Residence at Yale.

On Rereading: Forward by Anne Fadiman

David Samuels, Marginal Notes on the Inner Lives of People with Cluttered Apartments in the East Seventies
Franny and Zooey, by J.D. Salinger

Patricia Hampl, Relics of Saint Katherine
The Journal, Letters, and Stories of Katherine Mansfield

Sven Birkerts, Love's Wound, Love's Salve
Pan, by Knut Hamsun

Vijay Seshadri, Whitman's Triumph
"Song of Myself," by Walt Whitman

Arthur Krystal, Kid Roberts and Me
The Leather Pushers, by H.C. Witwer

Diana Kappel Smith, My Life with a Field Guide
A Field Guide to Wildflowers of Northeastern and Northcentral North America, by Roger Tory Peterson and Margaret McKenny

Luc Sante, A Companion of the Prophet
Arthur Rimbaud, by Enid Starkie

Katherine Ashenburg, Three Doctors' Daughters
The Sue Barton Books, by Helen Dore Boylston

Jamie James, "You Shall Hear of Me"
Lord Jim, by Joseph Conrad

Vivian Gornick, Love with a Capital L
The Vagabond and The Shackle, by Colette

Michael Upchurch, Stead Made Me Do It
House of All Nations, by Christina Stead

Allegra Goodman, Pemberley Previsited
Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen

Pico Iyer, Lawrence by Lightning
The Virgin and the Gypsy, by D.H. Lawrence

Barbara Sjoholm, The Ice Palace
"The Snow Queen," by Hans Christian Andersen

Evelyn Toynton, Revisiting Brideshead
Brideshead Revisited, by Evelyn Waugh

Phillip Lopate, The Pursuit of Worldliness
The Charterhouse of Parma, by Stendhal

David Michaels, The Back of the Album
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, by the Beatles

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