Tag: book handling

• Do You Have An Odd Book Shelf? (Ex Libris, Anne Fadiman)

  The late-great Flann O’Brien (aka Brian O’Nolan, aka Myles na Gopaleen) would, I feel have approved wholeheartedly of Anne Fadiman and her family. The idiosyncratic exponent of the art of Professional Book Handling (http://chriscross-thebooktrunk.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/i-want-to-be-book-handler.html) would have been delighted by their belief that books are there to be read and enjoyed, and that it is quite…

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  May 30, 2012

  Anne Fadiman, book handling, book shelves, books, Confessions of a Common Reader, Ex Libris, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, language, libraries, writing