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- Dec 4, 2005
- Real Name
- Phil Laugher
- About My Library
- In catch-up mode after 11.5 years of neglect. For real, this time.
- About Me
- 38-year-old academic library technician/archival assistant with a penchant for books on books, European fiction, travel narratives, and book-as-object.
- Location
- Halifax, NS
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- Favorite Authors
- Renata Adler, Geoffrey Chaucer, J. P. Donleavy, Geoff Dyer, Esi Edugyan, Patrick Leigh Fermor, Tibor Fischer, Penelope Fitzgerald, Graham Greene, Lawrence Hill, Bohumil Hrabal, Jerome K. Jerome, László Krasznahorkai, Czesław Miłosz, Flann O'Brien, Alexandre Dumas, pere, James Salter, Freya Stark, Jonathan Swift, Mark Twain, Robert Walser
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Bookstores: Bookmark II, Brattle Book Shop, Carlson & Turner Books, Commonwealth Books, Crescent City Books, Dauphine Street Books, Raven Used Books, Schooner Books, Shakespeare and Company (Paris), The Harvard Coop, The Odd Book, The Word Bookstore, Titcombs Book Shop, Tombland Bookshop, Yes Books
Libraries: Anchor Archive Zine Library, Dalhousie University - Killam Memorial Library, Dalhousie University - W. K. Kellogg Health Sciences Library, Halifax Central Library, Mount Saint Vincent University Library, New York Public Library - Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, Nova Scotia Archives Library, Saint Mary's University - Patrick Power Library, Sexton Design & Technology Library, University of King's College Library
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