This San Francisco Library Collects Print Materials You Were Never Meant to See | KQED
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This San Francisco Library Collects Print Materials You Were Never Meant to See | KQED
ON LIBRARIESI was visiting public libraries and ultimately writing my dissertation about them and realizing it’s not about people engaging with kind of romanticized documents. There is some of that in the library, but it’s also compromised bodies interacting with compromised bodies, often the most marginalized people in societies and also really... See more
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The wonder of public libraries was not lost on Jack Kerouac, who wrote gorgeously about the NYPL in his journals—which, incidentally, I read in the NYPL. And, okay, yes, he was also writing about the Boston Public Library, which is lovely too.
ON BIG CITY LIBRARIES... See more
The two big city libraries that I’ve had occasion to frequent, the one in Boston and