A READER'S BOOK OF DAYS

A Reader’s Book of Days is a witty and addictively readable day-by-day compendium of the most notable (and neglected) events in literary history, including...

THE BLOODY: Paul Verlaine shoots Rimbaud, Mario Vargas Llosa punches Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Ben Jons duels and wins - Pushkin duels and dies... THE HISTORIC: Proust starts writing IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME, Primo Levi is freed from Auschwitz ... THE HUMDRUM: Tolsty can't get change on the streetcar THE ROMANTIC: Keats falls for Fanny Brawne, Anais Nin's husbands meet after her death... THE TRAGIC: Dostoyevsky is mock executed, Scott Fitzgerald writes "I haven't had a drink for almost six weeks" ... THE SURPRISING: Joseph Conrad defends the crew of the Titanic, Nabokov is knocked unconscious on the pitch - ending his career as a goalkeeper... ...and nearly 2,000 more true tales from the lives and works of writers all around the world, including: Martin Amis, Roberto Bolaño, Patrick Chamoiseau, Don DeLillo, Clarice Lispector, Hilary Mantel, Kenzaburo Oe, Michael Ondaatje, Amos Oz, Orhan Pamuk, Philip Roth, W. G. Sebald, Zadie Smith. Tom Nissley is an eight-time champion on Jeopardy! He holds a PhD in Literature and has written for the Paris Review Daily, The Millions, and The Stranger. He lives in Seattle, Washington.