tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5123697.post224220081692614563..comments2023-10-17T06:08:27.032-05:00Comments on Grantian Florilegium: On the Nightstandgileskirkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11546229381528820614noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5123697.post-56804537318140932972009-08-29T15:36:52.973-05:002009-08-29T15:36:52.973-05:00It's two months old, so you might have read it...It's two months old, so you might have read it already, but an essay in Newsweek by David Gates called "The Pleasure of Rereading" is a pleasure itself. I thought of you when I read this, from a page in, <i>In a recent New York Times op-ed in defense of rereading, Verlyn Klinkenborg lists some of his old favorites—he turns out to be a Dickens hound too—and concludes: "This is not a canon. This is a refuge."</i> Isn't that wonderful? The link (broken) is: http://www.news week.com/id/204221rachelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06443615888276700768noreply@blogger.com