Michael Dirda on what to read and collect
Michael Dirda is a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for The Washington Post Book World and the author of the memoir \u201cAn Open Book\u201d and of four collections of essays: \u201cReadings,\u201d \u201cBound to Please,\u201d \u201cBook by Book\u201d and \u201cClassics for Pleasure.\u201d Dirda was born in Lorain, Ohio, graduated with highest honors in English from Oberlin College, and received a Ph.D. in comparative literature (medieval studies and European romanticism) from Cornell University.
We met in Washington D.C., pre-Covid, to discuss specifically Michael's book Readings, and more generally the books he thinks are worth reading and collecting.\xa0