Bookshelf (Object Lessons)

Bookshelf (Object Lessons)

<p>Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.</p><p> Every shelf is different and every bookshelf tells a different story. One bookshelf can creak with character in a bohemian coffee shop and another can groan with gravitas in the Library of Congress. <i>W</i>riter and historian Lydia Pyne finds bookshelves to be holders not just of books but of so many other things: values, vibes, and verbs that can be contained and displayed in the buildings and rooms of contemporary human existence. With a shrewd eye toward this particular moment in the history of books, Pyne takes the reader on a tour of the bookshelf that leads critically to this juncture: amid rumors of the death of book culture, why is the life of the bookshelf in full bloom?</p><p>Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in the <i>The Atlantic.</i></p>