Harold Bloom was anything but a policymaker. The popular literary critic earned his renown for his erudition as a self-described “monster of reading” of literary texts. (Bloom was reputed to be able to consume hundreds of pages an hour and could purportedly recite the over 10,000 lines of John Milton’s Paradise Lost and untold volumes of British poetry.) A book cover divided into three horizontal color blocks. The top block is yellow with the title "THE MAN WHO READ EVERYTHING" in red capital