Pages and Polish

Sally Hansen Smooth and Perfect Sea and Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear Mint Sorbet with Shakespeare Wrote for Money by Nick Hornby

Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear Teeny Greeny Bikini with The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby

“I have complained in this column before about how everyone wants to spoil plots of classics for you. OK, I should have read David Copperfield before, and therefore deserve to be punished. But even the snootiest critic/publisher/whatever must presumably accept that we must all, at some point, read a book for the first time. I know that the only thing brainy people do with their lives is reread great works of fiction, but surely even James Wood and Harold Bloom read before they reread? (Maybe not. Maybe they’ve only ever reread, and that’s what separates them from us. Hats off to them.) “