Reading rooms / [electronic resource] / edited by Susan Allen Toth and John Coughlan ; foreword by Daniel J. Boorstin.. — 1st ed.. — New York : : Doubleday,, c1991.. — xviii, 486 p. : : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
Small-town libraries. (memoir) / (novel) / (novel) / (novel) / (poem) / (story) / (memoir) / : excerpt from One writer's beginnings : excerpt from Summer : excerpt from Main Street : excerpt from Grand opening : Library scene, small town, 1941 : Hillsboro's good luck : Bookworm, from Blooming Eudora Welty -- Edith Wharton -- Sinclair Lewis -- Jon Hassler -- John R. Nixon, Jr. -- Dorothy Canfield Fisher -- Susan Allen Toth. City libraries. (memoir) / (poem) / (essay) / (memoir) / (essay) / (poem) / (poem) / (memoir) / (memoir) / (poem) / : excerpt from New York Jew : A library lion speaks : The heart of the heart of the library : excerpt from Plexus : Back issues : Reading room : Response of the gentle scholars : excerpt from Bronx primitive : excerpt from A son of the middle border : Poetry reading in the downtown library Alfred Kazin -- E.B. White -- William Cole -- Henry Miller -- Elizabeth Hardwick -- E.B. White -- Edmund Wilson -- Kate Simon -- Hamlin Garland -- Cathy Stern. The librarian. (children's book) / (essay) / (fiction) / (song) from The music man / (story) / (story) / : excerpt from Betsy and Tacy go down town : Growing up with a past : Lucy Wallis, from Centerville, U.S.A. : Marian the librarian : The library : Gloss on a decision of the Council of Nicaca Maud Hart Lovelace -- Howard A. Wilson -- Charles Merz -- Meredith Willson -- Nikki Giovanni -- Joanne Greenberg. Children in the library. (children's book) / (children's book) / (poem) / (novel) / (essay) / (novel) / (memoir) / (story) / (poem) / (poem) / (children's book) / : excerpt from A quiet place : excerpt from Thimble summer : Covert Street : excerpt from It : D'Artagnan on Ninth Street : excerpt from A tree grows in Brooklyn : excerpt from An American childhood : Somebody always grabs the purple : The Carnegie Library, Juvenile Division : Children selecting books in a library : excerpt from Half Magic Rose Blue -- Elizabeth Enright -- Michael Waters -- Stephen King -- Pete Hamill -- Betty Smith -- Annie Dillard -- Henry Roth -- Randall Jarrell -- Randall Jarrell -- Edward Eager. Love in the library. (story) / (poem) / (poem) / (memoir) / (story) / : Wants : A note on library policy : Reading room, the New York Public Library : The doctors' club : Summer librarian Grace Paley -- Larry Rubin -- Richard Eberhart -- John Taylor -- Sue Kaufman. Mystery and murder in the library. (story) / (story) / (story) / (children's book) / (story) / : QL969.C9 : The library book : The day of the bookmobile : excerpt from The treasure of Alpheus Winterborn : The reference room Anthony Boucher -- Isaac Asimov -- Patricia McGerr -- John Bellairs -- John D. MacDonald. Laughter in the library. (poem) / (humor) / (humorous essay) / (story) / (poem) / (children's book) / (children's book) / : Library : excerpt from The happy bookers : The Carnegie libraries : Three short poems / : The interest gauge : Song of the library staff : excerpt from Beezus and Ramona : excerpt from Rufus M. Richard Armour -- Richard Armour -- Finley Peter Dunne -- Pyke Johnson, Jr. -- Edmund Lester Pearson -- Sam Walter Foss -- Beverly Cleary -- Eleanor Estes. Reading-room reveries. (poem) / (poem) / (poem) / (poem) / (poem) / (prose poem) / (poem) / (novel) / (memoir) / : Library scene : Daily library visitor : In the periodical room : Now Adam : A girl in a library : Library : To a scholar in the stacks : The library of Morpheus, from Free the realm of Morpheus : excerpt from Angel in the parlor Robert Pinsky -- Marsden Hartley -- Dannye Romine Powell -- Dannye Romine Powell -- Randall Jarrell -- Louis Jenkins -- Howard Nemerov -- Steven Millhauser -- Nancy Willard. Democracy in the library. (essay) / (essay) / (story) / (memoir) / (novel) / (memoir) / (novel) / (story) / (poem) / (poem) / (poem) / (prose poem) / (essay) / : The liberry : What the library means to me : A summer's reading : excerpt from A walker in the city : excerpt from Go tell it on the mountain : excerpt from Black boy : excerpt from Goodbye, Columbus : The trouble of Marcie Flint : Seth Compton : Rhoda Pitkin : The library : Libraries : The premise of meaning Bel Kaufman -- Amy Tan -- Bernard Malamud -- Alfred Kazin -- James Baldwin -- Richard Wright -- Philip Roth -- John Cheever -- Edgar Lee Masters -- Edgar Lee Masters -- John Greenleaf Whittier -- Karl Shapiro -- Archibald MacLeish.
Анотація: On cover: America's foremost writers celebrate our public libraries with stories, memoirs, essays, and poems.
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