false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1184762322m/1527318.jpg 1527318 5 There are some readers who will take one look at <I>In the Stacks: Short Stories About Libraries and Librarians</I> and yawn, and there are some who will pounce upon it eagerly. For those of us who find libraries strangely romantic, Michael Cart's anthology captures the duality of a place both private and public, both hushed and wholly congenial. Unsurprisingly, many of the stories are devoted to the stereotypical librarian: frustrated, spinsterish, and fussy. In Lorrie Moore's contribution, "Community Life," protagonist Olena goes to graduate school for English literature but ends up a librarian, lonely and unable to connect. Alice Munro explodes the library myth a bit with "Hard-Luck Stories," in which a librarian admits that her work "'really is one of those refuge-professions.' Which didn't mean, she said, that all the people in it were scared and spiritless. Far from it. It was full of genuine oddities and many flamboyant and expansive personalities." <I>In the Stacks</I> drags the library into the light of day: Anthony Boucher sets a mystery among the books; Walter R. Brooks gives us a Mr. Ed story; and there's some Ray Bradbury weirdness. The collection rightly ends with the glorious "Library of Babel" by librarian-seer-fabulist Jorge Luis Borges. <I>--Claire Dederer</I> 1519277 2002 In the Stacks: Short Stories about Libraries and Librarians total:59|5:5|4:17|3:24|2:12|1:1| 59 190 198 12 372530 0715632744 9780715632741 9 1 3.22 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174247883m/372530.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/372530.In_the_Stacks 5 1 false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 09 08:21:51 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 09 08:29:42 -0800 2008 more...]]> 1527318 1585674168 9781585674169 46 11 3.22 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1184762322m/1527318.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1527318.In_the_Stacks_Short_Stories_about_Libraries_and_Librarians 3 0 false Tue Dec 30 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 29 18:50:05 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 06 17:51:33 -0800 2009 Favorites were Italo Calvino's "A General...more...]]> 1527318 1585674168 9781585674169 46 11 3.22 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1184762322m/1527318.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1527318.In_the_Stacks_Short_Stories_about_Libraries_and_Librarians 4 0 false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Jan 09 16:04:16 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 09 16:05:10 -0800 2009 more...]]> 1527318 1585674168 9781585674169 46 11 3.22 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1184762322m/1527318.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1527318.In_the_Stacks_Short_Stories_about_Libraries_and_Librarians 4 0 false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Fri Jul 24 17:56:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 24 17:56:11 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1527318 1585674168 9781585674169 46 11 3.22 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1184762322m/1527318.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1527318.In_the_Stacks_Short_Stories_about_Libraries_and_Librarians 5 0 false Fri Nov 13 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 13 06:10:20 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 19 06:14:34 -0800 2009
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Italo Calvino - A General in the Library
Joanne Greenberg - Gloss on a Decision of the Council of Nicaea
Lorrie Moore - Community Life
Saki - The Story of St. Vespaluus

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