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### Joan Didion
- Best Known Work:
- Slouching Towards Bethlehem (1968) – A seminal collection of essays capturing the spirit of the 1960s, particularly in California.
- The Year of Magical Thinking (2005) – A powerful memoir about grief and the death of her husband, John Gregory Dunne.
- Underrated/Underdiscovered Work:
- Play It As It Lays (1970) – A
... See moreI don’t often feel the need to reach all the way back to Manutius and Gutenberg. For me, the apotheosis of the printed book is, say, Frank O’Hara’s Lunch Poems, or maybe Ferlinghetti’s Coney Island of the Mind.
Robin Sloan • Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore: A Novel
I praise its decentralization, and its willingness to empower booksellers at the local stores.
Ted Gioia • What Can We Learn From Barnes & Noble's Surprising Turnaround?
How to Walk and Talk: Everything We Know
How to plan and organize a walk-and-talk, including choosing participants, setting the duration and distance, arranging meals and lodging, and managing logistics and communications.
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Umberto Eco, who owned 50,000 books, had this to say about home libraries: "It is foolish to think that you have to read all the books you buy, as it is foolish to criticize those who buy more books than they will ever be able to read. It would be like saying that you should use all the cutlery or glasses or screwdrivers or drill bits you bought... See more
Once the habit of reading has taken hold—usually when we are very young—it cannot be easily dislodged.