Amy Reading
Amy Reading is a
writer based in Ithaca, NY. She received a PhD in American Studies from Yale University in 2007. She is the author of The Mark Inside: A Perfect Swindle, a Cunning Revenge, and a Small History of the Big Con. She is currently working on a literary biography called Katharine S. White Edits the New Yorker, forthcoming from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Reading List
The Rare Virtue of Interior Spaciousness; or, Bigger on the Inside
“It is pleasant to read about whales through their own spectacles,” Ishmael says, and I will have to take his word for it, not having a strip of sperm whale cuticle to test out the matter for myself. He is …