num_pages: 330
description: For most of us librarians are the quiet people behind the desk who apart from the occasional shush vanish into the background. But in Quiet Please McSweeneys contributor Scott Douglas puts the quirky caretakers of our literature front and center. With a keen eye for the absurd and a Kesey-esque cast of characters (witness the librarian who is sure Thomas Pynchon is Julia Robertss latest flame) Douglas takes us where few readers have gone before. Punctuated by his own highly subjective research into library history-from Andrew Carnegies Gilded Age to todays Afghanistan-Douglas gives us a surprising (and sometimes hilarious) look at the lives which make up the social institution that is his library.
language: English
title: Quiet, Please: Dispatches From A Public Librarian
publisher: Da Capo Press