‘Reading the OED’ reviewed by Nicholson Baker
Written on August 5, 2008
A few years ago A.J. Jacobs published The Know-It-All: One Man’s Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World, about his cover-to-cover reading of the Encyclopedia Britannica, which seemed like a daunting enough task, but now there is Reading the OED: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages by Ammon Shea (Perigree, 2008), which Nicholson Baker reviewed in Sunday’s New York Times.
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