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National Library Week: Michael Dirda, Browsings: A Year of Reading, Collecting, and Living with Books

Monday, April 18, 2016 - 6:30 PM | Open to the Public | Members' Room | $10 with advance registration/$15 at the door

Michael Dirda has been hailed as “the best-read person in America” (The Paris Review) and “the best book critic in America” (The New York Observer). In addition to the Pulitzer Prize he was awarded for his reviews in the Washington Post, he picked up an Edgar from the Mystery Writers of America for his most recent book, On Conan Doyle. Dirda’s latest volume collects fifty of his witty and wide-ranging reflections on literary journalism, book collecting, and the writers he loves.

Michael Dirda is a Pulitzer Prize-winning critic and longtime book columnist for the Washington Post. He also writes regularly for the Times Literary Supplement, the New York Review of Books, and other literary journals. His previous publications include the memoir An Open Book, four collections of essays—Readings, Bound to Please, Book by Book, and Classics for Pleasure—and On Conan Doyle, for which he won an Edgar Award. A lifelong Sherlock Holmes and Conan Doyle fan, he was inducted into The Baker Street Irregulars in 2002.

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