Books about books

Right now I'm reading the latest collection of Nick Hornby's articles originally published in The Believer, a magazine with contributors such as Amy Sedaris and Dave Eggers. In Shakespeare Wrote for Money, Nick Hornby, author of About a Boy and Fever Pitch, tells about the books he's bought and read.

Here's Hornby's praise of Fun Home by Alison Bechdel:

Fun Home has had an enormous amount of praise ladled on it already, and those of us who love graphic novels will regret slightly the overt literariness of Bechdel's lovely book (there are riffs on Wilde, and The Portrait of a Lady, and Joyce)-not because it's unenjoyable or pretentious or unjustified, but because it is likely to encourage those who were previously dismissive of the form to decide that it is, after all, capable of intelligence. Never mind. We'll ignore them.

I've never gotten into Hornby's novels, but I read his two previous collections of articles-The Polysyllabic Spree and Housekeeping vs. the Dirt. They're funny books and they've have given me some good suggestions for reading. Since Hornby is British, he reviews some books that don't get as much press in America.