At Large and At Small: Familiar Essays

Butterflies, Haagen-Dazs, writing at night, playing word games . . . in this witty, intimate and delicious book, Anne Fadiman ruminates on her passions, both literary and everyday. From mourning the demise of letter-writing to revealing a monumental crush on Charles Lamb, from Balzac's coffee addiction to making ice-cream from liquid nitrogen, she draws us into a world of hedonistic pleasures and literary delights. This is the perfect book for life's ardent obsessive.