{"product_id":"9781555973384","title":"Letter to a Future Lover: Marginalia, Errata, Secrets, Inscriptions, and Other Ephemera Found in Libraries","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn exuberant, expansive cataloging of the intimate physical relationship between a reader and a book\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eA way to leave a trace of us, who we were or wanted to be, what we read and could imagine, what we did and what we left for you.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003eReaders of physical books leave traces: marginalia, slips of paper, fingerprints, highlighting, inscriptions. All books have histories, and libraries are not just collections of books and databases but a medium of long-distance communication with other writers and readers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e     Letter to a Future Lover\u003c\/i\u003e collects several dozen brief pieces written in response to library ephemera—with \"library\" defined broadly, ranging from university institutions to friends' shelves, from a seed library to a KGB prison library—and addressed to readers past, present, and future. Through these witty, idiosyncratic essays, Ander Monson reflects on the human need to catalog, preserve, and annotate; the private and public pleasures of reading; the nature of libraries; and how the self can be formed through reading and writing.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Graywolf Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47149142671600,"sku":"9781555973384","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781555973384_p0.jpg?v=1763753679","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781555973384","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}