At Large and at Small

Butterflies, ice-cream, writing at night, playing word games...in this witty, intimate and delicious book Anne Fadiman ruminates on her passions, both literary and everyday. From mourning the demise of letter-writing to revealing a monumental crush on Charles Lamb, from Balzac''s coffee addiction to making ice-cream from Liquid Nitrogen, she draws us into a world of hedonistic pleasures and litera...