"With cascades of books pouring down on him from every direction, how can the twenty-first-century reader keep his head above water? Gabriel Zaid answers that question in a variety of surprising ways, many of them witty, all of them provocative."-Anne Fadiman "'So many books, ' a phrase usually muttered with despair, is transformed into an expression of awe and joy by Gabriel Zaid."-Doug Dutton, Dutton's Brentwood Books