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Harold Bloom talked about his book, How to Read and Why, published by Scribner. The book focused on the reading of many different genres, saying that books should be read slowly and with lov…

Mr. Bloom talked about his book, Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, published by Riverhead Books. The book is about Mr. Bloom’s belief that “personality, in our sense, is a Shakespeare…

Professor Harold Bloom read from his book, Stories and Poems for Extremely Intelligent Children of All Ages, published by Scribner. The book is a collection of short stories and poems, mostl…

Selected authors read excerpts from their award winning nonfiction books.

This forum focuses on the life and works of Nathanael West, who produced four novels during his lifetime. The forum was co-hosted by the Library of America, which had just published a collec…