Housekeeping vs. the Dirt Fourteen Months of Massively Witty Adventures in Reading Chronicled by the National Book Critics Circle Finalist for Criticism

by Hornby, Nick

• ISBN13: 9781932416596
• ISBN10: 1932416595
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-09-13
• Publisher: McSweeney's

Summary

In this latest collection of essays following The Polysyllabic Spree, critic and author Nick Hornby continues the feverish survey of his swollen bookshelves, offering a funny, intelligent, and unblinkered account of the stuff he's been reading. Ranging from the middlebrow to the highbrow (with unrepenting dips into the lowbrow), Hornby's dispatches from his nightstand table serve as useful guides to contemporary letters, with revelations on contemporary culture, the intellectual scene, and English football, in equal measure.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. 11
February 2005	p. 21
March 2005	p. 29
A selection from Assassination Vacation	p. 37
April 2005	p. 41
May 2005	p. 49
June/July 2005	p. 57
August 2005	p. 65
September 2005	p. 73
A selection from Citizen Vince	p. 81
October 2005	p. 87
November 2005	p. 95
February 2006	p. 103
March 2006	p. 111
A selection from Ghosting	p. 119
April 2006	p. 123
A selection from Then We Came to the End	p. 131
May 2006	p. 137
An excerpt from Persepolis	p. 145
June/July 2006	p. 147
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