My dear friend M had read Edward Mendelsohn’s The Things That Matter some years ago and got me a copy for a birthday, saying she thought I would appreciate the discussion of classic literary texts from a professor’s point-of-view. I’m a bit of an English nerd (you know, being a lifelong reader, English major in college, and PhD in English), so books about books hold a certain appeal for me. Mendelsohn is a professor of Comparative Literature, so I was further curious to see how […]