Larry McMurtry recommended Pound’s ABC of Reading to me via Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen. It’s one of those books about books – a book about reading. Reading here is a verb’s verb. It’s all action, baby! It’s listening, it’s feeling the words in your mouth. It’s about l-i-v-i-n on Planet Earth. And if it’s not fresh, try again, amigo. Stand up to your full height and sound that barbaric yawp (or don’t – Pound isn’t a Whitman guy: “There are thirty well-written pages […]