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B & Me : a True Story of Literary Arousal by J. C. Hallman is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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A funny, frisky, often outrageous book about love, literature, and modern life—and a wink of the eye to U and I, Nicholson Baker’s classic book about John Updike—by an award-winning author called “wonderfully bright” by The New York Times Book Review. Nearly twenty-five years ago, Nicholson Baker published U and I, the fretful and handwringing—but also groundbreaking—tale of his literary relationship with John Updike. U and I inspired a whole sub-genre of engaging, entertaining writing about reading, but what no story of this type has ever done is tell its tale from the moment of conception, that moment when you realize that there is writer out there in the world that you must read—so you read them. B & Me is that story, the story of J. C. Hallman discovering and reading Nicholson Baker, and discovering himself in the process. Our relationship to books in the digital age, the role of art in an increasingly commodified world, the power great writing has to change us, these are at the core of Hallman’s investigation of Baker—questions he’s grappled with, values he’s come to doubt. But in reading Baker’s work, Hallman discovers the key to overcoming the malaise that had been plaguing

Who reads B & Me : a True Story of Literary Arousal?

Author

J. C. Hallman

Publisher

Simon & Schuster, Incorporated

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9781451682007

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Memoir

Rating

3.18 / 5 (42 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14