“I’d had my share of Sophocles and Aristotle, of Melville and Hawthorne, books assigned at university or offered to me by colleagues. I’ve spent enough time in the past. I want today, now. F. Scott Fitzgerald, Nancy Mitford, Langston Hughes.” “What did you do with your books?” “When I heard Professor Cohen’s collection had been pillaged, I boxed up my books and took them to her.
