The dream is everything in the sport of fishing. You dream with every cast of your fly that the shadowy form will finally rise to your fly. You dream as you drop off to sleep at night about the lunker… — Christopher Lehmann-Haupt Copy Share Image
We breathe, we think, we conceive of our lives as narratives. — Christopher Lehmann-Haupt Copy Share Image
Even if language is a living evolving organism, we don't have to embrace all the changes that occur during our lifetimes. If language is… — Christopher Lehmann-Haupt Copy Share Image
In the spirit of Julian Barnes's Flaubert's Parrot and Alain de Botton's How Proust Can Change Your Life, Mr. Dyer's Out of Sheer Rage… — Christopher Lehmann-Haupt Copy Share Image
The dream is everything in the sport of fishing. You dream with every cast of your fly that the shadowy form will finally rise… — Christopher Lehmann-Haupt Copy Share Image
There's an enormous difference between being a critic and a reviewer. The reviewer reacts to the experience of that book. — Christopher Lehmann-Haupt Copy Share Image
Rice Krispies happens to be one of my favorite junk foods, just as I regard Michener as superior among junk writers. — Christopher Lehmann-Haupt Copy Share Image
To be crazy is not necessarily to writhe in snake pits or converse with imaginary gods. It can sometimes be not knowing what to… — Christopher Lehmann-Haupt Copy Share Image
One is happy to report that Israel Shenker is still at the aerosol stage. His energy is still compressed. The result distinguishes him both… — Christopher Lehmann-Haupt Copy Share Image
A brilliant and challenging discussion presented with extraordinary clarity. — Christopher Lehmann-Haupt Copy Share Image
There is no medical proof that television causes brain damage - at least from over five feet away. In fact, TV is probably the… — Christopher Lehmann-Haupt Copy Share Image