The Art of Reading Poetry by Harold Bloom My rating: 4 of 5 stars Let's start with the obvious cliché: You can either love or hate Bloom. I've loved him since my college years for his take on Shakespeare, I was impressed with his contribution on poetry criticism with the anxiety of influence (and intertextuality all at once made tremendous sense), ...
The Unbelievable Hamlet Discovery by David Crystal My rating: 3 of 5 stars Hardly hysterical, hypothetically hilarious, hyperbolically humorous - harmless, however. View all my reviews ...
The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction by Neil Gaiman My rating: 5 of 5 stars Wow, I had no idea Neil Gaiman had written that many introductions and speeches. Nor did I know that he thought his stories have genders (and apparently that I am sort of sexist, having read only his little-boy's book, Neverwhere, and his male novel, American ...