Anecdotal Evidence

A blog about the intersection of books and life.

Thursday, January 22, 2026

'I Shall Load Up the Shelves Again

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Half a century ago, in the Winter 1976 issue of The American Scholar , the journal’s editor Joseph Epstein published an essay (under his usu...
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Wednesday, January 21, 2026

'Being But a Dream'

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In “Cockaigne: A Dream,” published in The New Yorker on January 21, 1974, L.E. Sissman describes the mental city he composed of pieces borr...
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Tuesday, January 20, 2026

'Like the Clothes He Wears'

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“There must be in prose many passages capable of producing a particular kind of aesthetic reaction more commonly identified with poetry.”   ...
Monday, January 19, 2026

'The Few Feet of Books in My Library Case'

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For more than thirty years, George Hamlin Fitch (1852-1925) wrote a weekly column for the Sunday book page of the San Francisco Chronicle . ...
Sunday, January 18, 2026

'Never Without the Company of Books'

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Edmund Blunden’s personal library of some 10,000 volumes is now in the collection at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. The university purchas...
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Saturday, January 17, 2026

'Picture the World Without Her in It'

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Out of the blue a poet sent me a pdf of his latest collection and, out of politeness, not gratitude, I thanked him. The guy can’t write. Or ...
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Friday, January 16, 2026

'His Own Discriminating Piety'

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I was an early subscriber to Grand Street , the magazine founded in 1981 by Ben Sonnenberg. What surprises me now is how many of its essays,...
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