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02989aam a2200445 i 4500 001 CA38E3AE8A5011E8ACCF452097128E48 003 SILO 005 20180718010702 008 170912t20182018nyu 000 0aeng 010 $a 2017036149 020 $a 1635571170 020 $a 9781635571172 035 $a (OCoLC)1001841941 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDX $d BTCTA $d BDX $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d OCLCQ $d OCLCO $d GK8 $d OCL $d TOH $d FM0 $d QQ3 $d JTH $d YDX $d IMD $d OCL $d IOU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a PS3573.H463 $b Z46 2018 082 00 $a B $a B $2 23 100 1 $a White, Edmund, $d 1940- $e author. 245 14 $a The unpunished vice : $b a life of reading / $c Edmund White. 264 1 $a New York : $b Bloomsbury USA, $c 2018. 300 $a 225 pages ; $c 22 cm 500 $a "Parts of this book have appeared in different form in the New York Review of Books, the Guardian, the Times Literary Supplement, and the Paris Review, and as a speech on the steps of the Capitoline in Rome."--Title page verso. 520 $a Literary icon Edmund White made his name through his writing but remembers his life through the books he has read. For White, each momentous occasion came with a book to match: Proust's Remembrance of Things Past, which opened up the seemingly closed world of homosexuality while he was at boarding school in Michigan; the Ezra Pound poems adored by a lover he followed to New York; the biography of Stephen Crane that inspired one of White's novels. But it wasn't until heart surgery in 2014, when he temporarily lost his desire to read, that White realized the key role that reading played in his life: forming his tastes, shaping his memories, and amusing him through the best and worst life had to offer. Blending memoir and literary criticism, The Unpunished Vice is a compendium of all the ways reading has shaped White's life and work. His larger-than-life presence on the literary scene lends itself to fascinating, intimate insights into the lives of some of the world's best-loved cultural figures. With characteristic wit and candor, he recalls reading Henry James to Peggy Guggenheim in her private gondola in Venice and phone calls at eight o'clock in the morning to Vladimir Nabokov--who once said that White was his favorite American writer. 600 10 $a White, Edmund, $d 1940- $x Books and reading. 650 0 $a Novelists, American $y 20th century $v Biography. 650 0 $a Literature $x Appreciation. 650 0 $a Books and reading. 650 0 $a Biographers $z United States $v Biography. 655 7 $a Autobiographies. $2 lcgft 941 $a 7 952 $l YEPF572 $d 20231012014051.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20231010020621.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20220129010205.0 952 $l GEPG771 $d 20210722055921.0 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20180828011202.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20180822010256.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20180802010930.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=CA38E3AE8A5011E8ACCF452097128E48 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search