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"Wind Sprints" by Joseph Epstein

Sydney M. Williams burrowingintobooks.blogspot.com Burrowing into Books “Wind Sprints” by Joseph Epstein September 2, 2019 “ I myself fall into the last category – those writers who feel a desolating sense of uselessness if a few days go by without their writing anything, and writing it for publication .”                                                                                                 Joseph Epstein (1937-) Introduction Wind Sprints 2016                                                                                                 We read for many reasons. We read fiction because we want to be entertained, as in humor and mysteries, or to understand something of character, as in the classics, or to learn the author’s take on a specific era. We read nonfiction to better explain science, psychology, technology, or to become familiar with historical events. We read biography to better know those who came before us, and autobio