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165 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Summary |
Readers of physical books leave traces: marginalia, slips of paper, fingerprints, highlighting, inscriptions. All books have histories, and libraries are not just collections of books and databases but a medium of long-distance communication with other writers and readers. Letter to a Future Lover collects several dozen brief pieces written in response to library ephemera -- with "library" defined broadly, ranging from university institutions to friends' shelves, from a seed library to a KGB prison library -- and addressed to readers past, present, and future. Through these idiosyncratic essays, Ander Monson reflects on the human need to catalog, preserve, and annotate; the private and public pleasures of reading; the nature of libraries; and how the self can be formed through reading and writing. |
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Books and reading.
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Marginalia.
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Errata.
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Printed ephemera.
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Libraries.
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American essays -- 21st century.
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American prose literature -- 21st century.
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Books and reading. (OCoLC)fst00836454
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| ISBN |
1555977065 |
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9781555977061 |
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