tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060047013304842896.post319111030378045783..comments2024-03-27T05:13:25.241-05:00Comments on The New Dork Review of Books: October's Compendium of Literary LinksGreg Zimmermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08122230426442946518noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060047013304842896.post-9120194836813252262010-10-29T09:54:48.676-05:002010-10-29T09:54:48.676-05:00Thanks for the kind words, Greg. "The Book C...Thanks for the kind words, Greg. "The Book Collection That Devoured My Life" was a great piece. I can see a bit of myself in there - owning two or three copies of the same book, figuring new and exciting ways to organize, schlepping heavy boxes unnecessary distances. If I'm a book hoarder, so be it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060047013304842896.post-2751978862105578202010-10-28T15:45:14.981-05:002010-10-28T15:45:14.981-05:00Thanks, Greg. Loved the Nicole Krauss piece. I h...Thanks, Greg. Loved the Nicole Krauss piece. I haven't read Great House, but the article certainly intrigued me.Patrick (at The Literate Man)https://www.blogger.com/profile/05126952182728811711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060047013304842896.post-70950417952340232132010-10-28T14:17:59.238-05:002010-10-28T14:17:59.238-05:00Thanks for these! I especially liked "The Boo...Thanks for these! I especially liked "The Book Collection That Devoured My Life". It's good to know there are still people out there like that (to an extent... it sounds like he could have been on the show Hoarders).Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10780185535345559390noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060047013304842896.post-3756524924131330492010-10-28T13:14:12.840-05:002010-10-28T13:14:12.840-05:00FAnx, fanx and fanx again! I just finished readin...FAnx, fanx and fanx again! I just finished reading Nemesis last night and want to rest my weary brain. These articles will definitely do the trick!Laura from Canadahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09635768536853540300noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060047013304842896.post-39676100625789863582010-10-28T12:47:59.477-05:002010-10-28T12:47:59.477-05:00Number three is great. I love the paragraph where ...Number three is great. I love the paragraph where he describes what kinds of books he always looks for ...<br /><br />"For me it tends to be more a matter of finding the links between things. I need to fill out my knowledge of Prague, 1949, or the Elizabethan prose writers, or the cross-migration between New York newspapers and Hollywood in the '20s and '30s. I buy every book I see about Gypsies, and most firsthand accounts of vaudeville, and almost everything by lesser-known New Yorker writers of the old regime. I'm always on the lookout for memoirs -- frequently by the less-than-famous -- that supply concrete details of daily life, rather than simply lists of names or dates of parties or, heaven forfend, litanies of traumas. I like books published before 1940 that are illustrated with photographs; even if those are frequently small and murky, they are rare windows into the past. " <br /><br />The whole article was very good. Thank you for sharing!IngridLolahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16079137600900264656noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060047013304842896.post-86488705210851149442010-10-28T11:37:29.313-05:002010-10-28T11:37:29.313-05:00Thank you for those. I am unduly amused by Hamlet...Thank you for those. I am unduly amused by Hamlet in FB updates!Jeannehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01374498643286099244noreply@blogger.com