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Why are literature so very powerful? What do the literature we've read over our lives - our very own personal libraries - make of us? What does indeed the unraveling of our tradition of general public libraries, so hard-won however now in jeopardy, say about us? The testimonies in Ali Smith's new collection are about what we do with literature and what they do with us: that they travel with us; how they distress us, change us, issue us, banish time while making us old, wiser, and ageless all at one time; that they remind us to pay attention to the entire world we make. Woven between the stories are conversations with authors and visitors reflecting on the essential role that libraries have enjoyed in their lives. At the same time when general public libraries surrounding the world face hazards of cuts and closures, this collection stands as a work of literary activism - so that as an excellent listen from one of our finest authors.
