The Proust Project

During our recent discussion of Andre Aciman's Find Me, Octavio Roca usefully reminded us that Aciman has actually produced more nonfiction than fiction. A good example is his 2004 book, The Proust Project, for which Aciman asked 28 writers--including Edmund White, Shirley Hazzard, Lydia Davis, Richard Howard, Alain de Botton and Diane Johnson--to choose a favorite passage from In Search of Lost Time and introduce it in a brief essay. His own discussion of that masterpiece in the preface received critical acclaim, but alas, the collection is out of print. Should it ever become available again, I'd certainly be interested in reading it even though I'm not a Proustian.