![]() ![]() I have a handful of copies of “ Chroma” by Derek Jarman, “ The Night of the Gun” by David Carr, Dawn Powell’s books set in New York City, and “ Housekeeping” by Marilynne Robinson. Every time I see them in a bookstore I buy them and then I give them out when people come over. ![]() There are a few books that I have extra copies of. I pare them down and then they magically refill.īOOKS: Do you have a criterion for purging books?ĬALHOUN: I get rid of newer books that didn’t grab me, the books of the moment versus books of all time. When we got a place in the Catskills we moved all the books up there. ![]() We have the world’s tiniest apartment in Brooklyn, but it’s rent stabilized so we have lived there for 16 years. We haven’t been through them because that smell of smoke could bring the memory of the fire back.ĬALHOUN: I do own a lot of books. The art books were in the front and were miraculously saved. That was where all the poetry was and the books from when I was a kid. I went in a day or two after the fire and the bookshelf in the back of their apartment looked like burnt toast. BOOKS: Did your parents lose a lot of books when their Greenwich Village apartment caught fire in 2019?ĬALHOUN: They had these giant bookshelves filled with books. ![]()
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