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About meFor over a decade, I have been the director of marketing and production for The Library of America. I read for work and I read for pleasure, and the boundary between the two is nonexistent. I also have an MA in medieval history from a previous life.

About my libraryI enjoy reading a variety of books: fiction (especially nineteenth-century Victorian novels, American realist fiction, and foreign-language novels in translation); religious history; historical surveys; biographies; overviews on physics, astronomy, and biology; and--my guilty pleasure--science fiction and fantasy. My Library Thing collection is only a partial list of the books I've read in the last decade.

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Favorite authorsMargaret Atwood, James Baldwin, Octavia E. Butler, Willa Cather, Michael Chabon, Michael Cunningham, Charles Dickens, Percival Everett, William Faulkner, John Gardner, Graham Greene, Ursula K. Le Guin, Thomas Hardy, L. P. Hartley, Laird Hunt, Hari Kunzru, Jhumpa Lahiri, Chang-Rae Lee, Doris Lessing, Naguib Mahfouz, Gabriel García Márquez, Cormac McCarthy, Herman Melville, Toni Morrison, Iris Murdoch, Frank Norris, Joyce Carol Oates, Flannery O'Connor, Alastair Reynolds, José Saramago, Anne Tyler, William T. Vollmann, Edmund White, Colson Whitehead, A. N. Wilson, Jeanette Winterson, Virginia Woolf (Shared favorites)

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Currently readingNovels and Social Writings: The People of the Abyss / The Road / The Iron Heel / Martin Eden / John Barleycorn (Library of America) by Jack London
The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol
Reporting World War II, Part 1: American Journalism, 1938-1944 (Library of America) by Library of America
My Lives: An Autobiography by Edmund White
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Thanks for the quick reply David. Nice to know Campbell is on the radar. I'd actually forgotten about the complication with Eliade.

posted by DeusExLibrus at 12:19 pm (EST) on Nov 2, 2011

Hey David, I was wondering if a Joseph Campbell volume has ever been considered, or Mircea Eliade? Both were American academics that were pretty influential in their field.

posted by DeusExLibrus at 10:51 am (EST) on Nov 2, 2011

I had a feeling that would be the case. Personally, I avoided the work because the cover seemed ridiculous (I'm not particualrly fond of humorous writing for some reason) but once I'd read a few pages I thought the writing was pretty upstanding.

It's a shame the Neon Bible is not a more substantial work, otherwise you might have just enough for a LOA volume. Although, a one-hit writers volume could include Ellison.

What'd you think of the Giles Harvey article on the Raymond Carver LOA? It was fairly persuasive.

posted by DanMat at 10:50 am (EST) on Oct 7, 2010

I've been collecting a number of LoA volumes through the secondary market, so I have a mix of slipcased, dj, and neither. I much prefer the slipcases, and was wondering if there was some way I could get ahold of a few for the naked volumes.

posted by DeusExLibrus at 12:21 am (EST) on Jul 6, 2010

Hi, and welcome to LibraryThing.

(My wife (MaggieO) and I have been LoA subscribers since the beginning.)

- Bob

posted by AsYouKnow_Bob at 1:02 am (EST) on Jan 16, 2010