A Taste for Honey by H. F. Heard

Something I find myself reflecting on often in recent years is whether notable equates to worth reading. H. F. Heard's A Taste for Honey is certainly a notable work by multiple metrics. Much praised, by a diverse collection of readers including Chandler and Nabokov, it is unusual in being reprinted fairly frequently over the decades since its publication. While it is not without faults, A Taste…