Library porn: fabulous places for booklovers everywhere
It is a rainy night with thunder and lightning, and I am supposed to be working on a funding proposal and transcribing interview tapes … so what better way to mindlessly fritter time away than to indulge my prurient taste for library porn? Hard to top these, from around the world. (We’ve shown library porn before here, and bookplate pornhere and here. Is this becoming an addiction?)
The images come to us via my Milanese friend, Novella Cipullo, who alerted me to the website and Facebook page for Libri antichi online. There is plenty to choose from – these are only a few, chosen almost at random.
And that’s one satisfied library customer at right.
The Cafe Pushkin in Moscow ... well, it's kind of a library...Oberlausitzische Bibliothek der Wissenschaften GörlitzLibrary of Chateau de Groussay in Montfort-l’Amaury, FranceEl Escorial Library in San Lorenzo, SpainStiftsbibliothek St. Gallen, SwitzerlandBiblioteca Queriniana in Brescia, Italy
Author: Cynthia Haven
Cynthia Haven has written for The Times Literary Supplement, The Nation, The Virginia Quarterly Review, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, World Literature Today, and other publications. Her work has also appeared in Le Monde, La Repubblica, The Kenyon Review, Quarterly Conversation, The Georgia Review, Civilization, and others. She has been a Milena Jesenská Journalism Fellow with the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen in Vienna. Peter Dale in Conversation with Cynthia Haven was published in London, 2005. Her Czestaw Mitosz: Conversations was published in 2006; Joseph Brodsky: Conversations in 2003; An Invisible Rope: Portraits of Czestaw Mitosz was published in 2011 with Ohio University Press / Swallow Press. She is currently a visiting scholar at Stanford. Her biography René Girard, A Life will be published next year.
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2 thoughts on “Library porn: fabulous places for booklovers everywhere”
Labor of love. Building a home for books. Thank you for these great pictures. I love the Vanderbilt library too.
Thanks for sharing the great pictures! I just love the ceiling at the Stiftsbibliothek St. Gallen, Switzerland! Awesome!
It is a rainy night with thunder and lightning, and I am supposed to be working on a funding proposal and transcribing interview tapes … so what better way to mindlessly fritter time away than to indulge my prurient taste for library porn? Hard to top these, from around the world. (We’ve shown library porn before here, and bookplate porn here and here. Is this becoming an addiction?)
Labor of love. Building a home for books. Thank you for these great pictures. I love the Vanderbilt library too.
Thanks for sharing the great pictures! I just love the ceiling at the Stiftsbibliothek St. Gallen, Switzerland! Awesome!