First published on 9th September, 2008 in StarTwo

AT LARGE AND AT SMALL: CONFESSIONS OF A LITERARY HEDONIST

By Anne Fadiman

Publisher: Allen Lane

(ISBN: 978-1846140433)

MY FIRST and only other encounter with Anne Fadiman was several years ago when I came across her essay collection, Ex Libris, at a warehouse sale. Priced at RM6, the slim red paperback volume, which bore the gold-tooled picture of a girl reading while seated on a pile of book, was impossible to resist, not least because its backcover blurb described it as a “book of essays in celebration of bibliophilia” (I bought 10 copies to distribute to book-loving friends).Read More »