Fantasies of the Library

Fantasies of the LibraryA book that acts both as library and exhibition space, selecting, arranging, and housing texts and images, aligning itself with printed matter in the process. Fantasies of the Library lets readers experience the library anew. The book imagines, and enacts, the library as both keeper of books and curator of ideas as a platform of the future. One essay occupies the right hand page of a two page spread while interviews scrolls independently on the left.

Based on Roman mythology she is known as Minerva

an incarceration camp in the California desert:Dorothea Lange was a photographer from San Francisco best known for her haunting Depression-era images

Join author and Washington insider Alison Fortier as she carefully curates an expedition to our shining city on a hill

Toussaint Moore is a college-educated

    --Jane Austen

Test your knowledge by reading the clues on the front of each card

The Library of Congress Prints and Photographs collection include photographs

Michael Martinez's third collection of poetry circle around how the perceived body comes to be coded with the trans-historical consequences of an imperial narrative

and even erotic prints--was amassed around 1620 by an unknown lover

Imagine a writer who combines Woody Allen s sense of exaggeration his ability to extrapolate situations to their funniest extremes with the perspective and self-consciously elegant language of John Updike

Even those islanders who are fortunate to have survived find their lives forever altered

Boot rescues Edward Lansdale (1908–1987) from historical ignominy