She is a contributing editor for The Appendix and a reviewer and essayist for NewPages and New York Journal of Books. Lydia Pyne (PhD) is a freelance writer, editor, and historian, and a research fellow in the Institute for Historical Studies at the University of Texas of Austin, USA. It is published in partnership with an essay series in the The Atlantic. Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. With a shrewd eye toward this particular moment in the history of books, Pyne takes the reader on a tour of the bookshelf that leads critically to this juncture: amid rumors of the death of book culture, why is the life of the bookshelf in full bloom? "W"riter and historian Lydia Pyne finds bookshelves to be holders not just of books but of so many other things: values, vibes, and verbs that can be contained and displayed in the buildings and rooms of contemporary human existence. One bookshelf can creak with character in a bohemian coffee shop and another can groan with gravitas in the Library of Congress. Join us when author Lydia Pyne and editor Christopher Schaberg come to discuss and sign BOOKSHELF.Įvery shelf is different and every bookshelf tells a different story.
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