The order of the bookshelves

"How a society orders its bookshelves is as telling as the books a society writes and reads.  ... Books are isolated from one another, like gardenias or peaches, lest they bruise or become bruised, or worse, consort, confuse. "

"My reading was scheduled for the six-thirty slot ... In the middle of one of my paragraphs ... I could see a crowd was forming for the eight o'clock reading, a lesbian poet. ... I continued to read, but wondered to myself: Why couldn't I get the lesbians for an hour?  And