A Few Thousand Words About Love: Mickey Pearlman

Rating:
Summary: fantastic
Review: As the Amazon review says, this is hardly the sappy fare you'd expect from a book so titled... actually, one of my favourites was the piece from Joyce Carol Oates, although I found the piece by Katherine Weber less entertaining. In any case, this is a very sharp collection of essays and excerpts about love.

Rating:
Summary: a wonderful collection
Review: What a gem of a collection! Writers new to me as well as some favorites are all wonderful and charming and loose and intelligent in this odd little collection. The only one that disappointed was Joyce Carol Oates, but only one dud isn't bad. Some of these essays are as good or better than fiction by these illustrious authors. Perfect for book discussion groups.