December 17, 2004
Pleasure Reading
The Chronicle asked four scholars what they're reading in their spare time.
Wendy Doniger, professor of the history of religions at the University of Chicago and author of The Woman Who Pretended to Be Who She Was: Myths of Self-Imitation (Oxford University Press, 2005):
During the teaching term, I read to teach. Often I stay up half the night, just like a feckless undergraduate, to reread or sometimes even to read for the first time the book I've assigned. "I always meant to
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