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Favorite authorsDavid Bakan, Paul Bénichou, Peter L. Berger, Henri Bergson, Albert Camus, George Eliot, Chris Hedges, Victor Hugo, William James, James Joyce, James Merrill, Karl Popper, Marcel Proust, William Shakespeare, Arnold J. Toynbee, Anthony Trollope, John Updike, Alfred de Vigny (Shared favorites)

About meAcademic, activist.

About my libraryMaybe I first really thought of "my library" in the early 1970s. Later, when I worked in a second-hand bookshop in San Francisco (McDonald's Books) from 1976 to 1989, I was allowed to acquire books by purchasing them from the store "at cost," and my library began to grow. When I entered grad school in 1980 (UC Berkeley, French), I used the concept of a "working library" to justify further acquisitions. In the 1990s I seem to have acquired fewer books, but since 2001 I have grown increasingly interested in more current material and my library has begun to grow again.

Homepagehttp://www.plu.edu/~jensenmk/

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Real nameMark K. Jensen

LocationTacoma, WA

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Member sinceJul 22, 2008

Currently readingThe Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World by Steven Johnson
Rats: Observations on the History and Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants by Robert Sullivan
The decline of the West by Oswald Spengler
Leaves of grass, comprising all the poems written by Walt Whitman, following the arrangement of the edition of 1891-'2 by Walt Whitman
Outerbridge reach by Robert Stone
Stereogram by Howard Rheingold
The order of books : readers, authors and libraries in Europe between the fourteenth and eighteenth centuries by Roger Chartier
The reason, the understanding, and time by Arthur O. Lovejoy
Le morte d'Arthur, vol. 1 by Sir Thomas Malory
The haunted bookshop by Christopher Morley
When we liked Ike: Looking for postwar America by Barbara Norfleet
The monkey grammarian by Octavio Paz
Duino elegies by Rainer Maria Rilke
McMafia: A journey through the global criminal underworld by Misha Glenny
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