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Letter to a future lover : marginalia, errata, secrets, inscriptions, and other ephemera found in libraries / Ander Monson.

by Monson, Ander, 1975-

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Graywolf Press, [2015]

Printed ephemera.

Books and reading.

American essays -- 21st century.

9781555977061 (hc.)

1555977065 (hc.)

Alternate title:

Marginalia, errata, secrets, inscriptions, and other ephemera found in libraries

165 p. : ill. ; 24 cm

An exuberant, expansive cataloging of the intimate physical relationship between a reader and a book. Readers 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. This book collects several dozen brief pieces written in response to library ephemera--the libraries ranging from university institutions to friends' shelves, from a seed library to a KGB prison library--and addressed to readers past, present, and future. Through these witty, idiosyncratic essays, Ander Monson reflects on the human need to catalog, preserve, and annotate; the private and public pleasures of reading; the nature of libraries; and how the self can be formed through reading and writing. Ander Monson is the author of Vanishing Point : Not a Memoir. He lives in Tucson and teaches at the University of Arizona.

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