Western Lit Survival Kit: An Irreverent Guide to the Classics, from Homer to Faulkner

Description: Newman, co-author of "How Not to Write a Novel," takes readers on a sidesplitting tour that makes it a blast to read the Western literary canon, from the ancient Greeks to the Modernists. Packed with pop culture gems, stories of literary hoaxes, ironic day jobs for authors, bad reviews of books that would later become classics, and more.

Review Quotes: "How can one book be totally irreverent and incredibly informative at the same time ? Must be a trick. And Sandra Newman pulls this trick off with laugh-out-loud humor."
-Thomas Cathcart & Daniel Klein, authors of Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes

"Sandra Newman extends a lifeline to those drowning in what others told us was the Western literature necessary to read. This is about what is needed to live. " -Evan Dobelle, Author / Researcher of " Saviors of our Cities " and President of Horace Mann's Westfield State University, " The People's College "