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Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books
Maureen Corrigan

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whoseblues1, June 28, 2007

Corrigan reviews books for NPR?s Fresh Air. She also has co-edited a book of criticism and teaches college-level courses on detective fiction. This book is a sort of personal essay about reading and what reading means (and does) to the passionate reader. It is also about certain genres of writing, and certain specific examples within those genres, that have made an impression on her throughout her reading life. She teases out some trends in a couple of those genres ? e.g., her specialty of detective fiction, as well as what she calls ?secular martyr? books (Corrigan is from a Catholic background) -- that I found interesting for what they say over the arc of her reading life about girls and women as both subjects and consumers of these materials. She is the first author I have read to explicitly point out that, since most of the reading we are required to do throughout our education is centered around a male hero or antihero, girls/women practice a ?learned androgyny? (i.e., a ?sex change of the imagination?) so that they can step mentally into men?s stories in literature. The implications of this fact, and of the fact that the converse is not equally true, are interesting to reflect upon. Corrigan has a light, readable writing style. And if you?ve been thinking of diving into detective fiction, a bonus here is a solid list of knowledgeable recommendations.

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