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Monthly Archives: May 2010

“I wanted to live among books”

I‘ve mentioned my nerdly hero Alberto Manguel in passing here several times before. Mr. Manguel is a writer, translator, editor, anthologist and—above all else—a great critical reader and lover of books. One of the most repeated facts of Mr. Manguel’s life is that, as an adolescent in Buenos Aires, he had the privilege of being [...]