Sunday, September 05, 2010

On the Media: For the Love of Books

For the Love of Books
On the Media (NPR)



The thingness of books is a sensual experience of sight, smell and feel. That’s why people obsess over old books, and why they steal them. In The Man Who Loved Books Too Much, Allison Hoover Bartlett profiles John Gilkey, a man for whom books were building blocks for a whole new identity.

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