Podcast
The Daily Stoic
The podcast describes Orlean's book as capturing the magic of libraries and their ability to connect people to various voices through millions of pages. The speaker highlights the feeling of connection to a vast conversation spanning centuries, even in solitude.
In her beautiful book about the Los Angeles Public Library Fire, Susan Orlean captures the magic of what libraries can offer.
— Episode: Turn To This Friend Constantly
Episode: Turn To This Friend Constantly
The podcast describes Orlean's book as capturing the magic of libraries and their ability to connect people to various voices through millions of pages. The speaker highlights the feeling of connection to a vast conversation spanning centuries, even in solitude.
In her beautiful book about the Los Angeles Public Library Fire, Susan Orlean captures the magic of what libraries can offer.
She describes walking through the empty library in downtown LA, not a soul in sight and feeling connected to all the voices represented on the millions of pages that surround her.
A library is a good place to soften solitude, she writes.
A place where you feel part of a conversation that has gone on for hundreds and hundreds of years even when you are all alone.
The library is a whispering post, she said, you don't need to take a book off the shelf to know there is a voice inside that is waiting to speak to you.