You are what you read: a practical guide to reading well

Part One. Approaches

Reading & Questioning: What Texts Say and Suggest; What They Show and Do

and How

Reading for the Truth: Experiencing, Interpreting, and Evaluating What and How We Read

Part Two. Applications

Reading Nonfiction: Essays, Ideas and the Pleasures of Conversation

Reading Fiction: Laboratories for the Creation of the Self

Part Three. Uses

Paradoxical Pleasures of Reading: Dialectical Energies

Reading for Your Life: How Reading Is Intertwined With Living

Coda. Nine Recommended Reading Practices.