Reading rooms / edited by Susan Allen Toth and John Coughlan ; foreword by Daniel J. Boorstin.
On cover: America's foremost writers celebrate our public libraries with stories, memoirs, essays, and poems.
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Doubleday,
[1991]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Small-town libraries. excerpt from One writer's beginnings (memoir) / Eudora Welty
- excerpt from Summer (novel) / Edith Wharton
- excerpt from Main Street (novel) / Sinclair Lewis
- excerpt from Grand opening (novel) / Jon Hassler
- Library scene, small town, 1941 (poem) / John R. Nixon, Jr.
- Hillsboro's good luck (story) / Dorothy Canfield Fisher
- Bookworm, from Blooming (memoir) / Susan Allen Toth.
- City libraries. excerpt from New York Jew (memoir) / Alfred Kazin
- A library lion speaks (poem) / E.B. White
- The heart of the heart of the library (essay) / William Cole
- excerpt from Plexus (memoir) / Henry Miller
- Back issues (essay) / Elizabeth Hardwick
- Reading room (poem) / E.B. White
- Response of the gentle scholars (poem) / Edmund Wilson
- excerpt from Bronx primitive (memoir) / Kate Simon
- excerpt from A son of the middle border (memoir) / Hamlin Garland
- Poetry reading in the downtown library (poem) / Cathy Stern.
- The librarian. excerpt from Betsy and Tacy go down town (children's book) / Maud Hart Lovelace
- Growing up with a past (essay) / Howard A. Wilson
- Lucy Wallis, from Centerville, U.S.A. (fiction) / Charles Merz
- Marian the librarian (song) from The music man / Meredith Willson
- The library (story) / Nikki Giovanni
- Gloss on a decision of the Council of Nicaca (story) / Joanne Greenberg.
- Children in the library. excerpt from A quiet place (children's book) / Rose Blue
- excerpt from Thimble summer (children's book) / Elizabeth Enright
- Covert Street (poem) / Michael Waters
- excerpt from It (novel) / Stephen King
- D'Artagnan on Ninth Street (essay) / Pete Hamill
- excerpt from A tree grows in Brooklyn (novel) / Betty Smith
- excerpt from An American childhood (memoir) / Annie Dillard
- Somebody always grabs the purple (story) / Henry Roth
- The Carnegie Library, Juvenile Division (poem) / Randall Jarrell
- Children selecting books in a library (poem) / Randall Jarrell
- excerpt from Half Magic (children's book) / Edward Eager.
- Love in the library. Wants (story) / Grace Paley
- A note on library policy (poem) / Larry Rubin
- Reading room, the New York Public Library (poem) / Richard Eberhart
- The doctors' club (memoir) / John Taylor
- Summer librarian (story) / Sue Kaufman.
- Mystery and murder in the library. QL969.C9 (story) / Anthony Boucher
- The library book (story) / Isaac Asimov
- The day of the bookmobile (story) / Patricia McGerr
- excerpt from The treasure of Alpheus Winterborn (children's book) / John Bellairs
- The reference room (story) / John D. MacDonald.
- Laughter in the library. Library (poem) / Richard Armour
- excerpt from The happy bookers (humor) / Richard Armour
- The Carnegie libraries (humorous essay) / Finley Peter Dunne
- Three short poems / Pyke Johnson, Jr.
- The interest gauge (story) / Edmund Lester Pearson
- Song of the library staff (poem) / Sam Walter Foss
- excerpt from Beezus and Ramona (children's book) / Beverly Cleary
- excerpt from Rufus M. (children's book) / Eleanor Estes.
- Reading-room reveries. Library scene (poem) / Robert Pinsky
- Daily library visitor (poem) / Marsden Hartley
- In the periodical room (poem) / Dannye Romine Powell
- Now Adam (poem) / Dannye Romine Powell
- A girl in a library (poem) / Randall Jarrell
- Library (prose poem) / Louis Jenkins
- To a scholar in the stacks (poem) / Howard Nemerov
- The library of Morpheus, from Free the realm of Morpheus (novel) / Steven Millhauser
- excerpt from Angel in the parlor (memoir) / Nancy Willard.
- Democracy in the library. The liberry (essay) / Bel Kaufman
- What the library means to me (essay) / Amy Tan
- A summer's reading (story) / Bernard Malamud
- excerpt from A walker in the city (memoir) / Alfred Kazin
- excerpt from Go tell it on the mountain (novel) / James Baldwin
- excerpt from Black boy (memoir) / Richard Wright
- excerpt from Goodbye, Columbus (novel) / Philip Roth
- The trouble of Marcie Flint (story) / John Cheever
- Seth Compton (poem) / Edgar Lee Masters
- Rhoda Pitkin (poem) / Edgar Lee Masters
- The library (poem) / John Greenleaf Whittier
- Libraries (prose poem) / Karl Shapiro
- The premise of meaning (essay) / Archibald MacLeish.