Judging a Book by Its Lover - A Field Guide to the Hearts and Minds of Readers Everywhere

"Leto is as funny as she is well-read; a delight for bibliophiles and wannabes alike." --Wylie Overstreet, author of The History of the World According to Facebook Lauren Leto, humor blogger and co-author of Texts from Last Night , now offers a fascinating field guide to the hearts and minds of readers everywhere. Judging a Book by Its Lover is like a literary Sh*t My Dad Says --an unrelentingly witty and delightfully irreverent guide to the intricate world of passionate literary debate, at once skewering and celebrating great writers, from Dostoevsky to Ayn Rand to Jonathan Franzen, and all the people who read them. This provocative, smart, and addictively funny tome arose out of Leto''s popular "book porn" blog posts, and it will delight and outrage literature fans, readers of Stuff White People Like and I Judge You When You Use Poor Grammar --people obsessed with literary culture and people fed up with literary culture--in equal measure.

Product details

• Authors: Lauren Leto
• Publisher: Harper Perennial USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.10.2012
• EAN: 9780062070142
• ISBN: 978-0-06-207014-2
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 203 mm x 17 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Comic, cartoon, humour, satire; Science: general issues, Biography: general, Memoirs, Reference works, Performing arts: comedy, United States of America, USA, Literary essays, Anthologies: general, Renaissance style, Literary reference works, Comedy and stand-up, Gender studies: women and girls, Nature and the natural world: general interest, Literature: history and criticism, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Personal Memoirs, HUMOR: Form / Essays, HUMOR: General, LITERARY CRITICISM: Books & Reading, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: Essays, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: Women Authors, NATURE: Reference, HUMOR: Topic / Animals, LITERARY CRITICISM: Reference