TY  - BOOK
AU  - Toth,Susan Allen
AU  - Coughlan,John
TI  - Reading rooms
SN  - 0385412916 :
AV  - PS509.P83 R4 1990
U1  - 810.8/0355 20
PY  - 1991///
CY  - New York
PB  - Doubleday
KW  - Public libraries
KW  - Literary collections
KW  - Books and reading
KW  - Authors, American
KW  - 20th century
KW  - American literature
KW  - United States
KW  - Öffentliche Bibliothek
KW  - swd
KW  - Lesesaal
KW  - Erlebnisbericht
KW  - USA
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; Small-town libraries; excerpt from One writer's beginnings; (memoir); Eudora Welty --; excerpt from Summer; (novel); Edith Wharton --; excerpt from Main Street; (novel); Sinclair Lewis --; excerpt from Grand opening; (novel); Jon Hassler --; Library scene, small town, 1941; (poem); John R. Nixon, Jr. --; Hillsboro's good luck; (story); Dorothy Canfield Fisher --; Bookworm, from Blooming; (memoir); Susan Allen Toth; City libraries; excerpt from New York Jew; (memoir); Alfred Kazin --; A library lion speaks; (poem); E.B. White --; The heart of the heart of the library; (essay); William Cole --; excerpt from Plexus; (memoir); Henry Miller --; Back issues; (essay); Elizabeth Hardwick --; Reading room; (poem); E.B. White --; Response of the gentle scholars; (poem); Edmund Wilson --; excerpt from Bronx primitive; (memoir); Kate Simon --; excerpt from A son of the middle border; (memoir); Hamlin Garland --; Poetry reading in the downtown library; (poem); Cathy Stern; The librarian; excerpt from Betsy and Tacy go down town; (children's book); Maud Hart Lovelace --; Growing up with a past; (essay); Howard A. Wilson --; Lucy Wallis, from Centerville, U.S.A; (fiction); Charles Merz --; Marian the librarian; (song) from The music man; Meredith Willson --; The library; (story); Nikki Giovanni --; Gloss on a decision of the Council of Nicaca; (story); Joanne Greenberg; Children in the library; excerpt from A quiet place; (children's book); Rose Blue --; excerpt from Thimble summer; (children's book); Elizabeth Enright --; Covert Street; (poem); Michael Waters --; excerpt from It; (novel); Stephen King --; D'Artagnan on Ninth Street; (essay); Pete Hamill --; excerpt from A tree grows in Brooklyn; (novel); Betty Smith --; excerpt from An American childhood; (memoir); Annie Dillard --; Somebody always grabs the purple; (story); Henry Roth --; The Carnegie Library, Juvenile Division; (poem); Randall Jarrell --; Children selecting books in a library; (poem); Randall Jarrell --; excerpt from Half Magic; (children's book); Edward Eager; Love in the library; Wants; (story); Grace Paley --; A note on library policy; (poem); Larry Rubin --; Reading room, the New York Public Library; (poem); Richard Eberhart --; The doctors' club; (memoir); John Taylor --; Summer librarian; (story); Sue Kaufman; Mystery and murder in the library; QL969.C9; (story); Anthony Boucher --; The library book; (story); Isaac Asimov --; The day of the bookmobile; (story); Patricia McGerr --; excerpt from The treasure of Alpheus Winterborn; (children's book); John Bellairs --; The reference room; (story); John D. MacDonald; Laughter in the library; Library; (poem); Richard Armour --; excerpt from The happy bookers; (humor); Richard Armour --; The Carnegie libraries; (humorous essay); Finley Peter Dunne --; Three short poems; Pyke Johnson, Jr. --; The interest gauge; (story); Edmund Lester Pearson --; Song of the library staff; (poem); Sam Walter Foss --; excerpt from Beezus and Ramona; (children's book); Beverly Cleary --; excerpt from Rufus M; (children's book); Eleanor Estes; Reading-room reveries; Library scene; (poem); Robert Pinsky --; Daily library visitor; (poem); Marsden Hartley --; In the periodical room; (poem); Dannye Romine Powell --; Now Adam; (poem); Dannye Romine Powell --; A girl in a library; (poem); Randall Jarrell --; Library; (prose poem); Louis Jenkins --; To a scholar in the stacks; (poem); Howard Nemerov --; The library of Morpheus, from Free the realm of Morpheus; (novel); Steven Millhauser --; excerpt from Angel in the parlor; (memoir); Nancy Willard; Democracy in the library; The liberry; (essay); Bel Kaufman --; What the library means to me; (essay); Amy Tan --; A summer's reading; (story); Bernard Malamud --; excerpt from A walker in the city; (memoir); Alfred Kazin --; excerpt from Go tell it on the mountain; (novel); James Baldwin --; excerpt from Black boy; (memoir); Richard Wright --; excerpt from Goodbye, Columbus; (novel); Philip Roth --; The trouble of Marcie Flint; (story); John Cheever --; Seth Compton; (poem); Edgar Lee Masters --; Rhoda Pitkin; (poem); Edgar Lee Masters --; The library; (poem); John Greenleaf Whittier --; Libraries; (prose poem); Karl Shapiro --; The premise of meaning; (essay); Archibald MacLeish
N2  - On cover: America's foremost writers celebrate our public libraries with stories, memoirs, essays, and poems
UR  - http://www.archive.org/details/readingrooms00toth
UR  - http://www.openlibrary.org/books/OL1860542M
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