Member: Eramirez156

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About my library"Libraries, much like life itself, are a work in eternal mutation" - Ilan Stavans

“My library is not a single beast but a composite of many others, a fantastic animal made up of the several libraries built and then abandoned, over and over again, throughout my life. I can’t remember a time in which I didn’t have a library of some sort. The present one is a sort of multilayered autobiography, each book holding the moment in which I opened it for the first time. The scribbles on the margins, the occasional date on the flyleaf, the faded bus ticket marking a page for a reason today mysterious, all try to remind me of who I was then. For the most part, they fail. My memory is less interested in me than in my books, and I find it easier to remember the story read once than the young man who then read it.”
-Alberto Manguel

GroupsAntiquarian Books, Books on Books, Booze!, Chess, Chicagoans, Cookbookers, Literatura en Espanol, South American Fiction-Argentine Writers

Favorite authorsWalter Benjamin, Roberto Bolaño, Jorge Luis Borges, Anton Bruckner, Julio Cortázar, Mario Vargas Llosa, Gustav Mahler, Haruki Murakami, Octavio Paz, Alfonso Reyes, Robert Simpson, Enrique Vila-Matas (Shared favorites)

VenuesFavorites | Visited

Favorite bookstores57th Street Books, Amaranth Books, Casa del Libro - Gran Vía, City Lights Books, Downtown Books, Europa Books, Fred Wilson Chess Books, O'Gara and Wilson, Booksellers, Open Books, Powell's - Hyde Park, Renaissance Book Shop, Seminary Co-op Bookstore, The Armadillo's Pillow, Tres Americas Books, Inc.

Other favoritesPrinters Row Lit Fest, Newberry Library Book Fair, Jazz Record Mart

Homepagehttp://chessreader.blogspot.com/

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Member sinceSep 15, 2005

Currently readingKarl Kraus: Apocalyptic Satirist, Volume 2: The Postwar Crisis and the Rise of the Swastika by Edward Timms