Letter to a future lover
Subtitle: marginalia, errata, secrets, inscriptions, and other ephemera found in libraries
By: Ander Monson
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 165
ISBN-13: 9781555977061
Subjects: Inscriptions; Miscellanea; Books and reading; Libraries; Library browsing; Marginalia; American essays; Errata
Description: Readers of physical books leave traces: marginalia, slips of paper, fingerprints, highlighting, inscriptions. All books have histories, and libraries are not just collections of books and databases but a medium of long-distance communication with other writers and readers. Letter to a Future Lover collects several dozen brief pieces written in response to library ephemera--with "library" defined broadly, ranging from university institutions to friends' shelves, from a seed library to a KGB prison library--and addressed to readers past, present, and future.
Notes: Special Collections copy signed by the author on t.p.