Sheila Liming recalls watching a university library discard books to make room for a renovation. To trash a library book is to deaccession it, and as she remembers what she learned studying Edith Wharton’s marginalia, Liming suggests we lose not only the text itself, but also the conversation that take place between a careful reader and the author that appear as comments, questions, and provocations in the margins.
My obsession with Wharton’s l…
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