Anecdotal Evidence

A blog about the intersection of books and life.

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,...
Thursday, January 15, 2026

'I Make Little Choice at Table'

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Food seems to have replaced religion and art as a source of consolation and purpose in the lives of many people. I know some who photograph ...
Wednesday, January 14, 2026

'This Does Not Flatter Us'

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“Ah, pitiful / The twisted memories of an ancient fool / And sweet the silence of a young man dead!” There’s a tendency to romanticize, so...
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Tuesday, January 13, 2026

'Varied, Inconsistent and Unpredictable'

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Thedore Dalrymple has been publishing a series of books with a simple, blog-like premise: he writes about the books he has been reading. Wha...
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