- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Epigraph
- Author's Note
- 1 Closing the Books: <i>A Devoted Reader Arrives at the End of the Story</i>
- 2 H. C. Witwer and Me: <i>The Making of a Reader</i>
- 3 Stop the Presses: <i>A Petition for Less Writing</i>
- 4 What Do You Know? What Don't You Know?
- 5 Death, It's What Ails You
- 6 Why Smart People Believe in God
- 7 Taste, Too, Is an Art
- 8 The Rule of Temperament
- 9 Art and Craft
- 10 Certitudes
- 11 What Happened? The Rise and Fall of Theory
- 12 How We Write When We Write About Writing
- 13 Looking for a Good Argument: <i>Argument and the Novel</i>
- 14 Just Imagine: <i>Three Hundred Years of the Creative Imagination</i>
- 15 Going, Going, Gone: <i>The Place of Poetry in American Letters</i>
- 16 The Writing Life
- Credits
H. C. Witwer and Me: The Making of a Reader
H. C. Witwer and Me: The Making of a Reader
- Chapter:
- (p.17) 2 H. C. Witwer and Me: The Making of a Reader
- Source:
- Agitations
- Author(s):
Arthur Krystal
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
This chapter looks at H.C. Witwer's 1920 novel The Leather Pushers. It discusses the author's failure to get the book in auction in New York in January 1997 which was sold for 100 dollars. It also explains the author's experience in reading the book after purchasing a paperback copy and the joy of reading a book.
Keywords: The Leather Pushers, H.C. Witwer, auction, reading, book
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Epigraph
- Author's Note
- 1 Closing the Books: <i>A Devoted Reader Arrives at the End of the Story</i>
- 2 H. C. Witwer and Me: <i>The Making of a Reader</i>
- 3 Stop the Presses: <i>A Petition for Less Writing</i>
- 4 What Do You Know? What Don't You Know?
- 5 Death, It's What Ails You
- 6 Why Smart People Believe in God
- 7 Taste, Too, Is an Art
- 8 The Rule of Temperament
- 9 Art and Craft
- 10 Certitudes
- 11 What Happened? The Rise and Fall of Theory
- 12 How We Write When We Write About Writing
- 13 Looking for a Good Argument: <i>Argument and the Novel</i>
- 14 Just Imagine: <i>Three Hundred Years of the Creative Imagination</i>
- 15 Going, Going, Gone: <i>The Place of Poetry in American Letters</i>
- 16 The Writing Life
- Credits
