New York Public Library Literature Companion

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Pick up The New York Public Library Literature Companion to check the dates of Marcel Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past or to find out how James Joyce’s Ulysses changed U.S. obscenity laws, and you may find yourself hours later absorbed in the imaginary worlds of Camelot and The Matrix or sidetracked by the fascinating history of The New Yorker. Designed to satisfy the curious browser as well as the serious researcher, this exciting new resource offers the most u… More >>

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Readers’ Advisory Service in the Public Library

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Do you have anything else like this?” In public libraries, reference librarians are often called on to make recommendations to readers, sometimes in genres that they don’t personally read. Learning how to frame a discussion and articulate the appeal of a book, author, or genre marks the essence of a successful readers’ advisor. Readers’ advisory is defined as, “patron-oriented library service for adult fiction readers,” according to Saricks, a noted expert on the su… More >>

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Lust: The Seven Deadly Sins

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Lust, says Simon Blackburn, is furtive, headlong, always sizing up opportunities. It is a trail of clothing in the hallway, the trashy cousin of love. But be that as it may, the aim of this delightful book is to rescue lust “from the denunciations of old men of the deserts, to deliver it from the pallid and envious confessor and the stocks and pillories of the Puritans, to drag it from the category of sin to that of virtue.” Blackburn, author of such popular philos… More >>

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