Shares selections from the author's column in "The Believer" that discuss books he has bought and books he has read, and offers suggestions for great reads in every genre.
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"Reading -- Pensees) to make life survivable, maybe even endurable. Shields evokes his deeply divided personality (his "ridiculous "ambivalence), his character flaws, his woes, his serious despairs. Books are his life raft, but when they come to feel un-lifelike and archaic, he …