“What you don’t know,” the somewhat obscure English writer Sydney Smith once noted, “would make a great book.”
And what you don’t know about great books would make a really great book!
So here it is — What You Need to Know About the World’s Great Books and Writers but Never Learned.
Downbeat about the Beats?
Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Don’t know your Keats from your Yeats?
I am thrilled to announced that I’ve written a book with my daughter Jenny. Using the quick quiz format that was the hallmark of the New York Times Bestseller, Don’t Know Much About Anything, we’ve tried to offer a fun and entertaining way to learn about those books and authors you were supposed to read in high school and college—but probably never did. While serving as a quick refresher course, the book may also introduce you to some writers and works that might not be familiar but should be!
A compendium of fun quizzes, Don’t Know Much About the World’s Great Books and Writers is aimed at reintroducing you to some of the most important writers and their works through history; explaining what you need to know about hundreds of great books, plays and poems; exploring less familiar writers that everyone should know about—and generally rounding out the literary education of readers who have an appetite for learning, but want to have fun doing it.
I am especially excited about this book.
Look for Don’t Know Much About Literature on July 28!
