Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. PART ONE APPROACHES
5. Chapter One Reading and Questioning: What Texts Say and Suggest; What They Show and Do—and How 3
6. Chapter Two Reading for the Truth: Experiencing, Interpreting, and Evaluating What and How We Read 27
7. PART TWO APPLICATIONS
8. Chapter Three Reading Nonfiction: Essays, Ideas, and the Pleasures of Conversation 61
9. Chapter Four Reading Fiction: Laboratories for the Creation of the Self 93
10. PART THREE USES
11. Chapter Five Reading’s Paradoxical Pleasures: Dialectical Energies 137
12. Chapter Six Reading for Your Life: How Reading Is Entwined with Living 149
13. Coda Nine Recommended Reading Practices 170
14. Appendix A Print and Digital Reading 173
15. Appendix B What to Read and Why 187
16. Acknowledgments 205
17. References 207
18. Index 213