Letter to a future lover, marginalia, errata, secrets, inscriptions, and other ephemera found in libraries, Ander Monson
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Label
Letter to a future lover, marginalia, errata, secrets, inscriptions, and other ephemera found in libraries, Ander Monson
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
no index present
Literary Form
essays
Main title
Letter to a future lover
Oclc number
879582822
Responsibility statement
Ander Monson
Sub title
marginalia, errata, secrets, inscriptions, and other ephemera found in libraries
Summary
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. Through these 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
Table Of Contents
A -- A1 -- Alphabet is an aphrodisiac -- Burn this first/Unison device -- Contents may have settled during shipping -- Country music death notices, 1979-1980 -- Crime of omission -- Dear afternoons -- Dear Albert, Dear Alison -- Dear bound
Creator
Genre
Subject
- American essays -- 21st century
- American prose literature -- 21st century
- Bibliothek
- Errata
- Essais américains -- Michigan -- 21e siècle
- Printed ephemera
- Essais américains -- 21e siècle
- Leserforschung
- Marginalia
- Bibliothèques
- libraries (buildings)
- marginal illustrations
- American prose literature -- Michigan -- 21st century
- Buch
- Prose américaine -- 21e siècle
- printed ephemera
- Books and reading
- Printed ephemera
- Ephemera
- Libraries
- Notes marginales
- American essays -- Michigan -- 21st century
- Livres et lecture
- Publications éphémères
- Randbemerkung
- Prose américaine -- Michigan -- 21e siècle
Content
Author
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Incoming Resources
- Has instance1
Outgoing Resources
- Creator1
- Genre1
- Subject26
- American essays -- 21st century
- American prose literature -- 21st century
- Bibliothek
- Errata
- Essais américains -- Michigan -- 21e siècle
- Printed ephemera
- Essais américains -- 21e siècle
- Leserforschung
- Marginalia
- Bibliothèques
- libraries (buildings)
- marginal illustrations
- American prose literature -- Michigan -- 21st century
- Buch
- Prose américaine -- 21e siècle
- printed ephemera
- Books and reading
- Printed ephemera
- Ephemera
- Libraries
- Notes marginales
- American essays -- Michigan -- 21st century
- Livres et lecture
- Publications éphémères
- Randbemerkung
- Prose américaine -- Michigan -- 21e siècle
- Content1
- Author1
- Mapped to1