Fifteen outstanding writers answered editor Wendy Lesser’s call for original essays on the subject of language–the one they grew up wit...
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Mar 27, 2009
Ashley
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I love reading about how writers feel about writing, and I love learning about the structure and culture of different languages. However, the essays in this book were rather boring; very few of them made me really excited about language or words. Standouts were the essays "Circus Biped" by the Dutch writer Bert Keizer and "The Mother Tongue Between Two Slices of Rye" by Gary Shteyngart. Other than these, the essays were in this collection were rather bland and disappointin
Dec 28, 2010
Emily
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Ultimately lacking specific information on bilingualism or universal truth on multi-cultural identities, the collection seems to be for entertainment's sake. Some were rather entertaining - Papandrou, Tan, and Shteyngart's musings flowed. Other authors struck me as too discordant, trying unsuccessfully to merge the cerebral with the sentimental. The book was thus less entertaining than I had hoped.
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