LEADER 05645nam 2200637 450 001 9910824879503321 005 20230807214242.0 010 $a1-61117-509-7 035 $a(CKB)3710000000383144 035 $a(EBL)2054889 035 $a(OCoLC)905903168 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001457816 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11822870 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001457816 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11444199 035 $a(PQKB)10859568 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC2054889 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse41878 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL2054889 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11037857 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL759966 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000383144 100 $a20150428h20152015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aOff the books $eon literature and culture /$fJ. Peder Zane 210 1$aColumbia, South Carolina :$cThe University of South Carolina Press,$d2015. 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (345 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-336-28680-6 311 $a1-61117-508-9 327 $a""Cover ""; ""OFF THE BOOKS ""; ""Title ""; ""Copyright ""; ""Dedication ""; ""Contents ""; ""Acknowledgments ""; ""Introduction ""; ""Between the Covers: Classic Fiction ""; ""Eudora Welty: The Writersa??? Writer ""; ""John Fante: What the Boys Read ""; ""Knut Hamsun: Risking a Literary Friendship "" 327 $a""Georges Simenon: Rediscovering a Literary Phenomenon """"Walter Brooks: The World According to Freddy the Pig ""; ""Robert Penn Warrena???A King Restored: Round Two for an American Classic ""; ""Thomas/Tom Wolfe: The Man Who Cried Wolfe ""; ""Ralph Ellison: Popeye vs. The Invisible Man "" 327 $a""Nadezhda Mandelstam: Spanish Wine and Oranges """"Beyond the Covers: Contemporary Fiction ""; ""E. L. Doctorow: The Civil War in All Its Raging Glory ""; ""Richard Slotkin: 11 Openings to Abe Lincoln ""; ""Dan Brown: Ia???ve Cracked the Code of a???Da Vinci Codea??? Hypomania "" 327 $a""Haruki Murakami: A Writer Who Takes on the World """"Lydia Millet: A Daring Tale of a Lonely Heart ""; ""Nicholson Baker: Bomb-Throwing Book Against Bush Fizzles ""; ""Don DeLilloa???s Sound And Fury ""; ""Tom Wolfe: Far from Empty, Not Quite Full "" 327 $a""Thomas Pynchon: Another Monument in Pynchonland """"Norman Mailer Celebrates Himself, Again ""; ""Philip Roth for MVP ""; ""Southern Writing Lives ""; ""David Sedaris: Him Write Pretty ""; ""Jonathan Miles: Author Keeps the Tales Pouring ""; ""Jonathan Williams: Nosing Out Talent "" 327 $a""Reynolds Price: Rooted in His Native Soil "" 330 $a"Head Off the Books in this collection of newspaper columns, where J. Peder Zane uses classic and contemporary literature to explore American culture and politics. The book review editor for the Raleigh, North Carolina News & Observer from 1996 to 2009, Zane demonstrates that good books are essential for understanding ourselves and the world around us. The one hundred and thirty columns gathered in Off the Books find that sweet spot where literature's eternal values meet the day's current events. Together they offer a literary overview of the ideas, issues, and events shaping our culture--from 9/11 and the struggle for gay rights to the decline of high culture and the rise of sensationalism and solipsism. As they plumb and draw from the work of leading writers--from William Faulkner, Knut Hamsun, and Eudora Welty to Don DeLillo, Lydia Millet, and Philip Roth--these columns make an argument not just about the pleasure of books, but about their very necessity in our lives and culture"--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aLiterature and society 606 $aBooks and reading 615 0$aLiterature and society. 615 0$aBooks and reading. 676 $a809/.93358 686 $aLCO010000$aLIT004020$aLIT007000$2bisacsh 700 $aZane$b J. Peder$01680346 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910824879503321 996 $aOff the books$94049023 997 $aUNINA