Libraries are created worlds containing row upon row of shelves holding miles and miles of books. In one volume the cream of 20th century short fiction -- about libraries and librarians, and the terrors and pleasures contained in books -- is edited by Cart, a librarian and library advocate: the Borges' Library of Babel to John Cheever's Trouble of Marcie Flint to Lorrie Moore's Community Life.
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