![]() ![]() The world didn’t end, or not yet the Los Angeles Public Library survived and we are lucky to have lived long enough for Susan Orlean to write a book that begins with that library fire but delivers a lot more. “The books burned,” Orlean writes, “while most of us were waiting to see if we were about to witness the end of the world.” ![]() ![]() A near apocalypse at the Chernobyl nuclear reactor drove the fire to the back pages of American newspapers. We didn’t hear much about the library fire. On April 29, 1986, a fire consumed or damaged more than a million books in the main branch of the Los Angeles Public Library. It’s a masterful tribute to libraries, and, even better, it has a plot and a storyline. The Library Book is a book for every reader and every writer. ![]()
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