McDonald takes us on one engrossing and eye-opening trip after another into the multi-layered domain of the written word – writing as profession, as practice, as industry, as trade.
- J. M. Coetzee, Nobel laureate 2003,
A wonderfully creative book. The most engagingly written, extensively researched, and illuminating account that I have seen of what it means to read in an informed way.
- David Attwell, University of York,