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Michael Dirda
Michael Dirda
American Critic
Born: 1948
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Carl Barks was born in Merrill, Oregon, in 1901, grew up in a farming family, and eventually held a number of blue-collar jobs. He knew what it was to be poor and to work hard for a living. Michael Dirda
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Most scholarly books we read for the information or insight they contain. But some we return to simply for the pleasure of the author's company. Michael Dirda
Books Pleasure Insight Some Scholarly Simply Contain Most Return Read Author Information Company
When I was a boy in the late 1950s, the public library refused to stock books by Edgar Rice Burroughs. They were regarded as vulgar, ill-written potboilers. Michael Dirda
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Summertime, and the reading is easy... Well, maybe not easy, exactly, but July and August are hardly the months to start working your way through the works of Germanic philosophers. Save Hegel, Heidegger, and Husserl for the bleaker days of February. Michael Dirda
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Digital texts are all well and good, but books on shelves are a presence in your life. As such, they become a part of your day-to-day existence, reminding you, chastising you, calling to you. Plus, book collecting is, hands down, the greatest pastime in the world. Michael Dirda
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I don't like gross monetary inequities. I firmly believe that the wrong people and the wrong professions are being rewarded, and rewarded absurdly, and that the hardest work the obscenely rich do is ensuring that they preserve their privileges, status symbols, and bloated bank accounts. Michael Dirda
Work People Rich Believe Ensuring Status Wrong Firmly Absurdly Like Bloated Privileges Accounts Bank Rewarded Being Gross Professions Monetary Hardest Symbols Preserve
With the possible exception of steampunk aficionados, many reasonable people must view my fascination with Victorian and Edwardian popular fiction - mysteries, fantasy, and adventure - as eccentric or merely antiquarian. Michael Dirda
People Mysteries Possible Must Eccentric Exception Merely Adventure Edwardian Fiction Victorian Fantasy View Reasonable Many Popular Fascination
People sometimes think that I bring home all these old books because I'm addicted, that I'm no better than a hoarder with a houseful of crumbling newspapers. Michael Dirda
Home People Better Sometimes Old Think Addicted Books Crumbling Because Than Old Books Newspapers Bring
On any given day, I'm likely to be working at home, hunched over this keyboard, typing Great Thoughts and Beautiful Sentences - or so they seem at the time, like those beautifully flecked and iridescent stones one finds at the seashore that gradually dry into dull gray pebbles. Michael Dirda
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It is a truth universally acknowledged that M. Dirda is a sucker for anything bookish in the way of artwork. Michael Dirda
Truth Way Artwork Anything Acknowledged Sucker Universally
Mentoring is the last refuge of the older artist. With luck, disciples will keep one's books in print, one's reputation alive. Michael Dirda
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Once upon a time, I sat in my mother's lap as she turned the pages of Golden Books, and I gradually learned to read. Michael Dirda
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When I come to visit my mom - every two or three months - I generally spend five or six hours with her each day. She's always immensely glad to see me, her eldest child, her only son. Michael Dirda
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At the age of 14, I ran away from home for four days and hitchhiked around western Pennsylvania and southern Ohio. Michael Dirda
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I'm sometimes willing to put in vast, even inordinate amounts of time if I find a project that interests me. Michael Dirda
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With concerted effort, I can follow written instructions, but don't ask me to simply grasp how to operate a smartphone. Michael Dirda
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