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May012008

After You're Done Reading Everything in Edith Wharton's Library...

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You can move on to the book collections of Carl Sandburg, Susan B. Anthony, and noted fallen rhymester Tupac Shakur. These and other literary libraries are on the Lilbrarything group I See Dead People[’s Books]. A perfect way to fill in those gaps in your shelves! (Thanks to the indispensable Very Short List for the link.)

On the other hand, space may be tight, and life is certainly short, so you could also get rid of books instead—or at least contemplate the bookshelf with half an eye to getting rid of them, which is what my friends Caleb Crain and Scott McLemee have been doing and debating.

As for Edith Wharton, whose foundation’s house-preserving troubles Rebecca Mead documented in a recent issue, there’s another defender of her home: Kate Bolik in Slate; it looks like Slate readers (and others?) have helped delay the foreclosure of The Mount to May 31. Finally, here’s John Updike’s review in The New Yorker, from 2007, of a recent Edith Wharton biography.

If you’re the good-vibes-sending type, please direct some over to the National Magazine Awards this evening, won’t you?

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