Tag: Anne Fadiman

Traveling is always thought to be more enjoyable than moving: we envy foreign correspondents but pity army brats.

In At Large and At Small, essayist Anne Fadiman (she of Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader fame, one of my favorite books about reading) writes a dozen exceptionally well-written essays on such disparate subjects as coffee, mail and a biography of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Allow me to allow her to speak for herself.…

Read more Traveling is always thought to be more enjoyable than moving: we envy foreign correspondents but pity army brats.

Traveling is always thought to be more enjoyable than moving: we envy foreign correspondents but pity army brats.

A dozen exceptionally well-written essays on disparate subjects such as coffee, mail and a biography of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. In “A Piece of Cotton,” an essay about the American flag, Fadiman writes, “In the weeks after September 11, I saw for the first time that the flag…has multiple meanings….The red, white, and blue turban worn…

Read more Traveling is always thought to be more enjoyable than moving: we envy foreign correspondents but pity army brats.