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Wendy Lesser (born 1952) is an American critic, writer, and editor based in Berkeley, California. She is the founding editor of the arts journal The Threepenny Review, and the author of a novel and several works of nonfiction, including most recently a biography of the architect Louis Kahn, for which she won the 2017 Marfield Prize.

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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.

Contrary, Greek, Make, Self, Tend, Voice

I suppose if I had to give a one-word answer to the question of why I read, that word would be pleasure. The kind of pleasure you can get from reading is like no other in the world.

Give, Giving, Reading, Suppose, Would Be

The solution to the novel's legal problem is a satisfyingly intricate one, and nobody will want his money back on the plot. But the echoes that will remain in your mind after you've finished Reversible Errors will mainly have to do with the novel's other elements.

Back, Echoes, Errors, Mind, Nobody, Solution

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

Back, Bigger, Different, Literature, Reading

Half-truths can be more pernicious than outright falsehoods.

Falsehoods, Half, Lying, Outright, Pernicious

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

Loss, Meaningful, Nonsequential, Order

I think I was born with a sense of instantaneous connection between the things I perceived in the world and my feelings about those things my character has served me well it has made me. well, an eighteenth -century man of letters, though one who happens to be female and lives in twentieth-century Berkeley.

Born, Character, Letters, Men, Thinking, World

Dennis Crowley

Dennis Crowley

Richard Neal

Richard Neal

Anne Northup

Anne Northup

Edward Blake

Edward Blake

Roy Wood, Jr.

Roy Wood, Jr.

Cal Ripken, Sr.

Cal Ripken, Sr.

Muhammad al-Bukhari

Muhammad al-Bukhari

Jeff Cooper

Jeff Cooper

Lori Singer

Lori Singer

Shanola Hampton

Shanola Hampton

Will Keith Kellogg

Will Keith Kellogg

Helen Reddy

Helen Reddy