This is, in part, an unabashed love note to libraries. I’ve always been a fan of the library. In high school I spent a lot of my free time there, and in college I studied at the college library, a lot of which really meant talking and having fun and hanging out with friends. In New York I used to live not too far from the main Brooklyn library branch, a gorgeous building and an incredible resource. But only recently did I discover that my Brooklyn library card also gives me unlimited access to
Reading good books is like engaging in conversation with the most cultivated minds of past centuries who had composed them, or rather, taking part in a well-conducted dialogue in which such minds reveal to us only the best of their thoughts.