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The one area in which I find bookstore classification preferable to library classification is literary nonfiction.  A good book store will have a section reserved for essays, and sometimes longer nonfiction narratives.  At such a store, you can get one-stop shopping for the works of Annie Dillard, John McPhee, Gretel Ehrlich, et al.  In both […]

This is a post I wrote by hand when my computer was off getting fixed. I didn’t get around to transcribing it until now.
Once my grandmother asked my father and her cousin how she ought to organize her books. One said “Size!” and the other said “Color!” and, well, it went downhill […]