| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xviii, 486 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| 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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
| Summary |
On cover: America's foremost writers celebrate our public libraries with stories, memoirs, essays, and poems. |
| Subject |
Public libraries -- Literary collections.
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Books and reading -- Literary collections.
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Authors, American -- 20th century -- Books and reading.
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American literature -- 20th century.
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Books and reading -- United States.
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Public libraries -- United States.
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Authors, American -- 20th century -- Books and reading.
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Books and reading -- Literary collections.
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Books and reading -- United States.
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American literature. (OCoLC)fst00807113
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Authors, American. (OCoLC)fst00821764
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Books and reading. (OCoLC)fst00836454
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Public libraries. (OCoLC)fst01082640
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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Public libraries.
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Books and reading.
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American authors -- Books and reading.
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| Chronological Term |
1900-1999
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| Genre/Form |
Literature. (OCoLC)fst01921716
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Literary collections. (OCoLC)fst01423811
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Literature.
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| Added Author |
Toth, Susan Allen.
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Coughlan, John, 1944-
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| ISBN |
0385412916 |
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9780385412919 |
