'Review | Everybody who loves books should check out 'The Library Book' '.

^ a b c 'Nonfiction Book Review: The Library Book by Susan Orlean.

'It's a Fact: Mistakes Are Embarrassing the Publishing Industry'.

^ Alter, Alexandra (September 22, 2019).

'Who started the 1986 fire at the Los Angeles Library? Susan Orlean investigates in her new book'.

^ Kellogg, Carolyn (October 11, 2018).

'The Library Fire That Ignited an Author's Imagination'. Television adaptation Īs of 2019, Orlean is slated to collaborate with James Ponsoldt to write and executive-produce an adaption for television. The Library Book became a New York Times Best Seller. You really never know how seriously interesting a subject might be until such a person takes a serious interest in it.' In The Washington Post, Ron Charles called The Library Book 'a wide-ranging, deeply personal and terrifically engaging investigation of humanity's bulwark against oblivion: the library.' Reviewing the book for The New York Times, Michael Lewis wrote, 'Susan Orlean has once again found rich material where no one else has bothered to look for it…Once again, she's demonstrated that the feelings of a writer, if that writer is sufficiently talented and her feelings sufficiently strong, can supply her own drama. There is no shhhh-ing in this book.The Library Book received strongly favorable reviews and was selected as a 'PW Pick' by Publishers Weekly.

from Ohio, used an actual branding iron to mark offensive books and kept meticulous records of his more than 50 extramarital affairs. In 1905, the board decided that it would be better for a completely unqualified man to take over, but nevertheless she persisted, setting off the Great Library War, which swelled to include thousands of protesters in Los Angeles and around the country. Hired in 1900, Jones was also a pioneer in the development of a racially diverse collection - and she recruited black librarians. library head to graduate from a library school.

With a great eye for telling and quirky detail, she presents a vast catalogue of remarkable characters, such as Mary Jones, the first L.A. But what’s even more fascinating is her search through the L.A. Orlean takes us along as she interviews Peak’s relatives and friends, reads through newspaper stories and investigators’ reports, and sifts for truth among the ashes.

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