bookish person

It is most reminiscent of the editions of Susan Sontag’s journals that have appeared in recent years and that have  became very popular among a certain kind of young, bookish person.

No self-respecting bookish person could have missed the avalanche of press coverage leading up to the release of Watchman.

It is very unusual for a bookish person to head for Turkey these days without packing a few novels by Orhan Pamuk.

This music is removed from reality at least three times: blues and country through the lens of ’60s girl-group camp, through a Englishwoman’s dreams of American culture, through a bookish person’s idealization of the distant past.

In the present day, when few scholars have opportunities of enriching the world with their prison hours, perhaps the best conditions for testing how far any volume or portion of printed matter, however hopeless-looking, may yet yield edifying or amusing matter to a sufficient pressure, will occur when a bookish person finds himself imprisoned in a country inn, say for twenty-four hours.