"‘You can tell how serious people are by looking at their books,’” Susan Sontag told Sigrid Nunez, long ago when Nunez was dating Sontag’s son. “She meant not only what books they had on their shelves, but how the books were arranged,” Nunez explains. “Because of her, I arranged my own books by subject and in chronological rather than alphabetical order. I wanted to be serious."
(Source: thedamonsmith, via housingworksbookstore)
I just purchased a print of this. I love the idea of a library in such a strange and liminal space.
Jeremy Miranda. Library by the Sea.
Spotted while walking home in the rain today. Prospect Heights, Brooklyn.
How is technology mediating and changing our relationships to books as objects? If you have thoughts, email me at callingcollections@gmail.com. I’d love to come to your house and interview you or explore your book collection.
Fact: I have to throw all of these books away this month.
