One of the first essays in Life Sentences: Literary Judgements and Accounts, a new non-fiction collection by octogenarian novelist, literary critic, and emeritus philosophy professor William H. Gass, begins, “I live in a library.” Gass is referring primarily to the “nearly twenty thousand” volumes which, he tells us, comprise his library at his home in St. Louis, and more generally to the series of migrations between different libraries which the essay in question (“Slices of Life in a Library”) strings together to construct an autobiography of sorts.
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