things found in books, from dirty to sublime (or both)

 

Noel Black recently interviewed me for his Big Something radio show on the Colorado Springs NPR station. He got interested in the things found in books at the Colorado College library and asked me to talk about the collection the library keeps.

Some of the things we’ve found over the last decade were left in books deliberately as a sort of art shenanigan, we believe. Most, we are fairly certain, stayed in the books by accident. Library staff, especially student assistants, have been building the collection for about a decade.

I consider the collection itself to be a kind of shenanigan, since it’s unusual for a library to collect and display odds and ends such as these.