Not so Quiet
We mentioned earlier that Quiet, Please: Dispatches from a Public Librarian was Dan Menaker’s thank-you gift to the authors who appeared on the most recent Title Page TV show.
The book just got a bigger hit — coverage in USA Today. But, review editor, Bob Minzesheimer backhands our favorite institution — “libraries would benefit from more creative staffs with a sense of humor.” Ouch! Some way to celebrate libraries during National Library Week. Bob should know better; he is also President of the Board of the Ossining [NY] Public Library.
As far as the book goes, Minzesheimer finds it “too self-consciously hip for my tastes.”
Quiet Please: Dispatches from a Public Librarian
Scott Douglas
- Hardcover: $25.00
- Publisher: Da Capo Press (March 24, 2008)
- ISBN-10: 0786720913
- ISBN-13: 978-0786720910
As part of this National Library Week “celebration,” he also reviews The Library at Night, saying, “The writing is challenging but rewarding.”
The Library at Night
Alberto Manguel
- Hardcover: $27.50
- Publisher: Yale University Press (March 28, 2008)
- ISBN-10: 0300139144
- ISBN-13: 978-0300139143
The book has also been reviewed by Michael Dirda in the Washington Post and Nicholas A. Basbanes in the L.A. Times.