The Unpunished Vice: A Life of Reading

By Edmund White, professor emeritus of creative writing

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.