Those books without indexes
Read The Spectator article here.
Read about the book here.
knowledge
| ˈnäləj | noun. facts, information, and skills acquired by a person
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“The foremost finding aid of the physical book”
A symposium at Oxford’s Bodleian Library, June 2017
I for my part venerate the inventor of Indexes, that unknown labourer in literature who first laid open the nerves and arteries of a book.
–Isaac Disraeli, Literary Miscellanies
The Bodleian is one of the oldest libraries in Europe, and in Britain is second in size only to the British Library with over 12 million printed items. First opened to scholars in 1602, it incorporates an earlier library built by the University in the 15th century to house books donated by Humfrey, Duke of Gloucester. (Wikipedia)
The library is presenting a history of the book index — how the index has affected reading and research over the last 800 years.
Books: our resistance to narrow visions
Like a moon to the night, literature disrupts the totalitarian narrative
Click here for the New York Times opinion piece by Hisham Matar.
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Buffalo’s literary legacy: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was a year and a half old when the family moved to Buffalo. The Fitzgerald family lived at various addresses before returning to St. Paul MN when Scott was 12.
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“Dick opened an office in Buffalo but eventually without success. Nicole did not find out what the trouble was, but she heard a few months later that he was in a little town called Batavia, New York, practicing general medicine, and later that he was in Lockport doing the same thing … He was considered to have fine manners and once made a good speech at a public health meeting on the subject of drugs, but he became entangled, with a girl, who worked in a grocery store, and he was involved in a lawsuit about some medical question, and so he left Lockport.”
Buffalo, Batavia, Lockport … Dick Diver spiraling downward in western New York
