Tag: New York Review of Books

A Country Without Libraries

How many book lovers among the young has the Internet produced? Far fewer, I suspect, than the millions libraries have turned out over the last hundred years.

—Charles Simic1

NOTES:
1) Charles Simic, “A Country Without Libraries,” May 18, 2011, The New York Review, accessed May 25, 2011, https://www.nybooks.com/online/2011/05/18/country-without-libraries/

// somedays i fantasize that i’m a reviewer for the new york review of books… all day long i read engaging books and write elaborate book reviews… and then i wake up and realize most people don’t read engaging books… nor literary criticism… i’m such an anachronism.