So Many Books

Translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer 144-page paperback / 4.5" x 7" / ISBN 9781589880030 Publication Date: September 2003"A playful celebrant of literary proliferation."—New Yorker "Reading liberates the reader and transports him from his book to a reading of himself and all of life. It leads him to participate in conversations, and in some cases to arrange them…It could even be said that to publish a book is to insert it into the middle of a conversation."—from So Many Books Join the conversation! In So Many Books, Gabriel Zaid offers his observations on the literary condition: a highly original analysis of the predicament that readers, authors, publishers, booksellers, librarians, and teachers find themselves in today—when there are simply more books than any of us can contemplate. Also available as an ebook: Amazon Apple iTunes Bookstore Barnes & Noble Google Play Kobo (See IndieBound's list of independent booksellers selling e-books.) "Lively, cosmopolitan, and piq