From the Library of Alan Pryce-Jones
From my diary June 25, 1991 Mr. Pryce-Jones’s houses, three mid-ninteenth century saltboxes, are on John Street in the heart of Old Newport. I hadn’t been prepared for a compound. His principle residence is at 46 where we found a note addressed to Mr. and Mrs. Thometz asking us to check in at #50. He […]
From the Library of John Waters
Reading as a Pleasant Deviation: A Guided Tour of John Waters Library. As told to Kurt Thometz. I was not a book fanatic until I was fifteen and discovered Genet and Burroughs and all these Grove Press books and thought, thank God, I’m not that abnormal. That opened up a whole new world to me. […]
On Collecting
Style reveals the man. The building of a library is an act of style, an expression of what we are and a good measure of who we are. Collecting is an act of self-realization. One collects books and builds a library to create an intensified environment. It is a philosophical statement as this room is […]
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