At Large and at Small Familiar Essays In At Large and At Small Anne Fadiman returns to one of her favorite genres the familiar essay a beloved and hallowed literary tradition recognized for both its intellectual breadth and its miniatur
In At Large and At Small, Anne Fadiman returns to one of her favorite genres, the familiar essay a beloved and hallowed literary tradition recognized for both its intellectual breadth and its miniaturist focus on everyday experiences With the combination of humor and erudition that has distinguished her as one of our finest essayists, Fadiman draws us into twelve of her pIn At Large and At Small, Anne Fadiman returns to one of her favorite genres, the familiar essay a beloved and hallowed literary tradition recognized for both its intellectual breadth and its miniaturist focus on everyday experiences With the combination of humor and erudition that has distinguished her as one of our finest essayists, Fadiman draws us into twelve of her personal obsessions from her slightly sinister childhood enthusiasm for catching butterflies to her monumental crush on Charles Lamb, from her wistfulness for the days of letter writing to the challenges and rewards of moving from the city to the country.Many of these essays were composed under the influence of the subject at hand Fadiman ingests a shocking amount of ice cream and divulges her passion for H agen Dazs Chocolate Chocolate Chip and her brother s homemade Liquid Nitrogen Kahl a Coffee recipe included she sustains a terrific caffeine buzz while recounting Balzac s coffee addiction and she stays up till dawn to write about being a night owl, examining the rhythms of our circadian clocks and sharing such insomnia cures as her father s nocturnal word games and Lewis Carroll s mathematical puzzles At Large and At Small is a brilliant and delightful collection of essays that harkens a revival of a long cherished genre.
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Anne Fadiman
Anne Fadiman, the daughter of Annalee Whit Jacoby Fadiman, a screenwriter and foreign correspondent, and Clifton Fadiman, an essayist and critic, was born in New York City in 1953 She graduated in 1975 from Harvard College, where she began her writing career as the undergraduate columnist at Harvard Magazine For many years, she was a writer and columnist for Life, and later an Editor at Large at Civilization She has won National Magazine Awards for both Reporting 1987 and Essays 2003 , as well as a National Book Critics Circle Award for The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down Ex Libris Confessions of a Common Reader, a collection of first person essays on books and reading, was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 1998 Fadiman was the editor of the intellectual and cultural quarterly The American Scholar from 1997 to 2004 She now holds the Francis chair in nonfiction writing at Yale Fadiman lives in western Massachusetts with her husband, the writer George Howe Colt, and their two childrencmillan author annefa