Michigan Quarterly Review, July 1st, 2006
Twenty-seven books: some with their covers bleached, drained of color by the coastal sun; some with sand between their pages. Books for the young, for the old; books for the English major, the historian, the sailor, the casual naturalist. Books famous and forgotten, likewise their authors.
Likewise their readers. For these twenty-seven books amount to, they propose, a library of a particular kind, a library by chance, assembled not for any known purpose but quite randomly; assembled not by a single will, but by an idle population of readers who had no further use for their books, or wished to...
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