Reading Life: On Books, Memory, and Travel, by Michael Pearson
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Reading Life: On Books, Memory, and Travel, by Michael Pearson
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A unique blend of memoir, literary appreciation, and travel narrative, Reading Life is a series of interrelated essays tracking the relationship between books and experience, dramatizing and reflecting on how stories lead us into the world, and how we transform that engagement with the world back into personal narrative. A love story about books and travel, Reading Life is, by turns, comic and serious. Chapters shift in tone--from a lyrical quality akin to Adam Gopnik's to a tongue-in-cheek humor reminiscent of Ian Frazier's. The book transports the reader from the high desert landscape of Cather's New Mexico and the rocky coastline of E. B. White's Maine to the pilgrimage paths of Cervantes's Spain and the hallucinogenic heat of Bowles's Morocco. At the heart of Reading Life is the belief that stories are vital to our existence. Pearson invokes the same spirit that Tim O'Brien did in The Things They Carried when he said, "Stories are for joining the past to the future... Stories are for eternity, when memory is erased, when there is nothing to remember except the story." Books, like travel, compel us to venture into new worlds, to renew our acquaintance with old ones, and, ultimately, to learn how to see. Books are both window and mirror, allowing a view of something deep in us and a glimpse of some distant truth beyond what is familiar and known. Willie Morris, former editor of Harper s, said, "Michael Pearson is one of our nation s finest memoirists."
Reading Life: On Books, Memory, and Travel, by Michael Pearson- Amazon Sales Rank: #2005073 in Books
- Brand: Pearson, Michael
- Published on: 2015-03-16
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.81" h x .69" w x 6.46" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Perfect Paperback
- 272 pages
About the Author Michael Pearson is professor of Creative Writing at Old Dominion University. He holds degrees from Pennsylvania State University (PhD), University of San Francisco (MA), and Fordham University (BA). Pearson has published a number of books, among them Imagined Places: Journeys into Literary America and Dreaming of Columbus: A Boyhood in the Bronx.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Pearson will take you on a journey By Gregory Larson Pearson brings his usual sharp introspection and humor to Reading Life, and you will be the recipient of as many epiphanies and laughs as the writer experienced in his travels.For example, the "Pilgrim's Tale" chapter is downright hilarious. It's often the case that even if I recognize a piece of writing as being objectively funny I rarely laugh out loud when reading. However, when reading the "Pilgrim's Tale" chapter, on every page there is a description that surprises me to the point of belly laughter as I read. Pearson describes his whining students and their silly behavior while on a school-sponsored trip abroad with a disgruntled practicality that makes me laugh every time (e.g., the near fist-fight between a couple of students before being issued a certificate for completing a spiritually-significant pilgrimage). This chapter made me desperately want to travel with Pearson, if for no other reason than to be the recipient of such constant humor and perspective even in the most frustrating of travel situations.But it's not all laughs in Reading Life. Pearson's trip to Egypt and the surprising friendship he develops with Youssef, a driver in the streets of Alexandria, will bring a happy tear to your eye. Whether reading, traveling, or writing, Pearson invites you to share his enthusiasm for books the way they are meant to be enjoyed: not only as an escape but also as a propulsion into the world.Much like his perfection of the lost art of deep reading, Pearson has also perfected the lost art of the midrange jumper, so don't let him get any open looks from the 15 foot range. He won't kill you with shots behind the three-point line, but you can't let him control the court uncontested beyond the arc: he will cut your team to ribbons with sharp passes if you let him captain the game. Instead, get in his grill and force him to dribble drive. He may be able to kick out a few nice passes that give his teammates an easy lay-up (and make you look silly in the process), but the odds are in your favor in the longterm if you stay in his shorts on D.And don't let his smack talk get in your head. Anyone who has read his books knows the dude is witty, so you have to accept that you'll likely lose any bouts of verbal combat--but that's not the goal. What you want to do is engage him enough intellectually so that he's busy whipping up zingers in his head instead of focusing on the game.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Picking the best excerpts of classics is a great idea By gerard healy An interesting mix of experience, literary classics, and memories. Picking the best excerpts of classics is a great idea, then expanding on them, based on experiences and reflections make for captivating stories. A very nice and warm read.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Making the Old Places New: Renovations by Pearson By Outside Shooter We don’t often think of books as characters (only that they contain them), but Michael Pearson’s Reading Life: On Books, Memory, and Travel is a reflective, sometimes blustery, well-traveled old wort who reminds me of Mark Twain rocking on his porch in New Hampshire. Pearson’s book is a repository of stories, sites bent out of shape, books re-framed, and adventures which deepen both self- and world-knowledge. With each chapter, the narrator reveals how a place (New Mexico, the Hamptons, Georgia, Dublin, etc.) is given form by writers he admires (Cather, Fitzgerald, Percy, Joyce, etc.) and then transformed again by his own experience with those places and writers. Reading Life is fascinating landscape, thoughtful analysis, and personal revelation, a very different way of getting us inside a character. Pearson has no peer in bringing us the wonders of travel-writing and travel-reading.
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