I find it impossible to imagine anyone better read than White … Wisdom and a certain kind of tenderness are to be found on every page

Rachel Cooke, Observer

White is above all else a writer's writer: one of the great prose stylists of our time ... An afternoon stroll with a Grade-A literary flâneur … There are few paragraphs that pass by without an illuminating, wise or funny comment

Tim Smith-Laing, Daily Telegraph

As a peerless chronicler and interpreter of gay American life before, during and after the age of Aids, as a connoisseur of French (and so much other) literature and as a Princeton professor of creative writing, White never lost touch with that spirit of antic mischief … Much more fun – and more surprising – than a leisurely ramble through favourite works by a 78-year-old giant of letters has any right to be

Spectator

A rallying cry for the pleasures of reading ... The best writers are energetic readers, constantly diving for buried treasure. Anyone who encounters this book is likely to emerge with something new and gleaming

Financial Times

Praise for Edmund White

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A writer blessed with ... [an] elusive gift, and it should probably be called wisdom

Daily Telegraph