11. Reading Together

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. 1. Always a Stranger? 1
4. 2. Once Upon a Time 23
5. 3. A Civilized World 54
6. 4. Other Times: The 1950s 85
7. 5. Other Times: The 1960s 99
8. 6. Other Times: The 1970s 113
9. 7. The Pleasure Principle 129
10. 8. Professional Rereading 162
11. 9. Books I Ought to Like 186
12. 10. Guilty Pleasures 218
13. 11. Reading Together 243
14. Coda: What I Have Learned 272
15. Acknowledgments 281