The Reading Life, Part 3

It is greatness that I seek in books, so it is to those bookstore shelves where no one gawks that I return time and time again. Perhaps the writer who best points me to reading greats, while making me think he just might be great himself, is Joseph Epstein. My friend, Sonia Bodi, put me on to him one day in her librarians’ office, and I’ve not been the …