The novelist Madison Smartt Bell rereads the fiction of both Mary Gaitskill and Robert Stone the way one architect might appreciate another's blueprints.
Susan Williams recovers the literary and cultural significance of early photography in an important rereading of American fiction in the decades preceding the Civil War.
S. C. Gwynne ("Empire of the Summer Moon") is swearing off the oldies: "My resolution is to stop — stop, I tell you! — rereading all that dusty fiction on my bookshelves.
Reread your entire fan-fiction.
She is author of "This Prick Which Is Not One" in Feminist Approaches to the Body in Medieval Literature, edited by Linda Lomperis and Sarah Stanbury (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993), and of Arthurian Fictions: Rereading the Vulgate Cycle.
With fiction I frequently reread Anthony Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time and Barbara Pym's Jane and Prudence.
Gardiner believes "the real killer is that while fiction is read and reread over generations — centuries even — non-fiction, even really fine non-fiction, with a very few exceptions, becomes all too soon outdated and overtaken".
But perhaps the real killer is that while fiction is read and reread over generations – centuries even – non-fiction, even really fine non-fiction, with a very few exceptions, becomes all too soon outdated and overtaken.
I also teach and I change the reading list on my contemporary fiction course so that I can reread books that I've been away from for too long.
Reading the novel as a young woman was a random gift; rereading it today is to encounter the rarest of fiction and to appreciate the early and enduring genius of Muriel Spark.
I have reread it many, many times since stumbling across Berger's fiction some 20 years ago and, I hope, will continue to do so.
