Room for Doubt
A Memoir
Published on 19. February 2009
224 pages
978-0-307-49760-4 (ISBN)
Description
Room for Doubt is Wendy Lesser's account of three separate but interlocking occasions for doubt: her stay in Berlin, a city she had never expected to visit; her unwritten book on the philosopher David Hume; and her long friendship with the writer Leonard Michaels, which constantly broke down and yet endured. Through this unusual journey, Lesser in the end shows us how, once examined, things are never quite what she thought they were.
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Wendy Lesser is the founding editor of The Threepenny Review and the author of six previous books. Her reviews and essays appear in major newspapers and magazines across the country. Her awards and fellowships include membership in the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment from the Humanities, and the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award for Criticism from the American Academy of Arts & Letters. Currently, she is a Fellow at the New York Public Library's Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers.
Content
- Intro
- About the Author
- Other Books By This Author
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Part One - Out of Berlin
- Chapter 1
- Part Two - On not Writing About David Hume
- Chapter 2
- Part Three - Difficult Friends
- Chapter I
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 4
- Chapter 5
- Chapter 6
- Chapter 7
- Chapter 8
- Chapter 9
- Chapter I0
- Chapter II
- Chapter I2
- Chapter I3
- Copyright
