Books by Michael Dirda
Found 2 books
Michael Dirda, On Conan Doyle: Or, The Whole Art of Storytelling .
3. Michael Dirda, On Conan Doyle: Or, the Whole Art of Storytelling . Short meditation on both the merits of Doyle beyond Sherlock Holmes and why fiction, and our responses to it, are and should be deeply strange. I very much liked it.
4. Michael Dirda, Classics for Pleasure . As with popular science books, I am long since jaded with the genre of "let’s read my short essays about the classics so you don’t have to go bother reading those long, nasty books yourself." But this one delivers a true odyssey of discovery; I dog-eared a dozen or so pages to follow up on the recommendations. Will tracking down John Aubrey’s Brief Lives pay off? Who knows, but don’t we live on hope as it is?