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Favorite authorsRobert Ardrey, Nicholson Baker, Donald Barthelme, Arnold Bennett, Eugen Von Bohm-Bawerk, Ernest Bramah, James Branch Cabell, R. H. Coase, F. Marion Crawford, Peter De Vries, Lord Dunsany, F. A. Hayek, W. H. Hutt, Walter Arnold Kaufmann, Israel M. Kirzner, Ludwig M Lachmann, Lucian, H. L. Mencken, Carl Menger, George Meredith, Ludwig von Mises, Iris Murdoch, Vladimir Nabokov, George Santayana, Nassau William Senior, Herbert Spencer, F. W. Taussig, Jack Vance, Gore Vidal, Voltaire (Shared favorites)

About meI am an editor by profession, which makes me a reader and writer by definition. In addition, I enjoy composing music, in styles reminiscent of Hindemith, Milhaud, Stravinsky, Hovhaness, Satie, and Tcherepnin . . . and, yes, Scott Joplin.

About my libraryFor years I treated used book stores as a kind of lending library: buy a book, read it, trade the book back for "store credit" (anoher book or books). This has left me a private library of many books I have yet to read. More recently, I have found myself buying editions of books a second or third time, to read over. Hardly the most economical method of acquiring reading matter. At present I have lots of space at low cost, so accumulating books doesn't present quite the disutility it might be for others. Three thousand books? No problem. I could house ten thousand, if I could get rid of my hoard of old Macintosh computers.

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