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We turn to literature to remedy the loss, to impose some kind of meaningful order on the nonsequential.

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Reading literature is a way of reaching back to something bigger and older and different,

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The slight, the facile and the merely self-glorifying tend to drop away over the centuries, and what we are left with is the bedrock: Homer and Milton, the Greek tragedian and Shakespeare, Chaucer and Cervantes and Swift, Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy and James and Conrad. Time does not make their voices fainter, on the contrary, it reinforces our sense of their truth-telling capacity.

Wendy Lesser

Wendy Lesser

Wendy Lesser

Born: 1952 (age 70)

Bio: Wendy Lesser is an American critic, novelist, and editor based in Berkeley, California.

Known for:

Why I Read: The Serious Pleasure of Books (2014)
Pictures at an Execution (1993)
The Genius of Language (2004)
His other half (1991)

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