It’s been awhile since we featured library porn, more than four years, in fact – try here. Or gaze at the photo above. The “Old Main” library of Cincinnati was once one of the nation’s most beautiful public libraries and one of the city’s most stunning buildings. It was demolished in 1955, and the current address, 629 Vine Street, is now a parking garage. Go here for more views of the library, and the people who visited it, long ago in a galaxy far, far away.
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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The Cincinnati Library is now alive and well and living at 800 Vine St. with 40 branches throughout the city and suburbs. Visit the website at http://www.CincinnatiLibrary.org