Can One Read Too Much?
James Wood on Libraries and Intellectual Gluttony
James Wood asks whether private libraries reveal or hide their owners. As he packs up and sorts through his deceased father-in-law’s books, Wood comes to the conclusion that the task is no more meaningful or instructive than sorting through his remaining shirts. In the end, books are just things—he claims—like any other. This is the conclusion of the fi…
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