Loving Libraries
Published on Jun 16, 2008 in Arts
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Loving Libraries
June 16, 2008
A special program in honor of the return of Edith Wharton's personal library collection to The Mount, her home in the Berkshires in Lenox Massachus... More
A special program in honor of the return of Edith Wharton's personal library collection to The Mount, her home in the Berkshires in Lenox Massachusetts. In Italo Calvino's "A General in the Library," read by SHORTS host Isaiah Sheffer, a team of military men sent to weed out subversive literature find themselves disarmed. Ray Bradbury's "Exchange" documents a twilight encounter between an overworked librarian and a lonely soldier, and is read by Rochelle Oliver. Finally, Brenda Wehle offers an excerpt from Edith Wharton's memoir "Backward Glance: Henry James, which recalls the author's powerful readings of poems in Wharton's own library. Less
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