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Librarians

Bunker Buster

by Percival Everett,

From a speech delivered by Percival Everett at the Authors Guild Foundation Gala in April. I’m a storyteller, and I’m going to go off script and tell you a story…

Library of Dribble

by Jorge Luis Borges, Osvaldo Ferrari,Translated by Jason Wilson,

From Conversations, a collection of dialogues conducted in 1984 and 1985 between Jorge Luis Borges and the Argentine poet Osvaldo Ferrari, out next month from Seagull Books. Translated from the…

Avoiding librarianism

by Harper’s Staff,

Philip Larkin, with books

by Christopher Barker,

Farce kept breaking in

by Frank O’Connor,

A memoir

A novel motion

by Harper’s Staff,

The medieval library

by Ernest Cushing Richardson,

Wanted full information

by Harper’s Staff,

Editor’s drawer

by Harper’s Staff,

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