Michael Dirda is the book critic of the Washington Post. Tha author of several books about, well, books, and authors and writing and things, Dirda has a smooth prose style, which distracts you from the very considerable difference between his level of erudtion and yours. But, I digress. The reason I’m bringing this up here and now is that I found something by him in praise of Martin Gardner. His story is pretty much the same as mine, and we both got hooked on the same Mg book: Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science, but he makes the case for getting hold of, and reading, some of the numerous works this man has penned, and does it much better than I can. If you don’t believe me, and why should you, believe Michael Dirda:
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