The Unpunished Vice: A Life of Reading

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By Edmund White

Published June 26, 2018

The fourth memoir of writer Edmund White frames his life around the books that have meant the most to him, placed in relief by a 2014 heart surgery that temporarily left him without the desire to read. Primarily a collection of previously published essays, The Unpunished Vice is unified by White’s frankness and wit.

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