Let me walk you through my fantastic new home library, some of my most treasured books and talk through my tips for an IKEA hack to turn billy bookshelves into ones that look custom made. Click ‘Show More’ for info.

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My 2017 bookshelf tour in my previous apartment:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roR910JBl30

My Beginner’s Guide to Reading Joyce Carol Oates:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0OoLH29atw&t=49s

Rakesh Satyal’s Lammy Acceptance Speech in the style of Gaga’s ‘Bad Romance’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQSkvAnbPpA

Articles about arranging bookshelves
The Virtues of Shelf-lessness by Sloane Crosley: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/14/books/review/home-library-organization-dewey-decimal-system.html
Brief Notes on the Art and Manner of Arranging One’s Books by Georges Perec:
http://monumenttotransformation.org/atlas-of-transformation/html/c/classification/brief-notes-on-the-art-and-manner-of-arranging-ones-books-georges-perec.html
On Bookshelves by Anne F. Garreta:
http://oulipo.net/fr/on-bookselves

Books & Authors discussed:
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
George Eliot
The Bald Soprano by Eugene Ionesco
Vladimir Nabokov
Jean Rhys
Difficult Women by David Plante
Blue Boy by Rakesh Satyal
The Day Communists Took Over by Isabel Moore
Sex by Madonna
Enough by Eric Karl Anderson
Ontario Review No 66
Ganymede Stories One
From Boys to Men edited by Ted Gideonse and Rob Williams
50 Gay & Lesbian Books Everybody Must Read by Richard Canning
Matchbook Stories Issue 4: http://www.bookexmachina.com/matchbookstories-04.html
London by George Wharton Edwards
The Journal of Joyce Carol Oates: 1973-1982
My Day by Jean Rhys
Austerlitz by WG Sebald
The Lost Ones by Samuel Beckett
Somerset House 1971 by Gilbert & George
Ladder of Years by Anne Tyler
Soul at the White Heat by Joyce Carol Oates
The Alice B Toklas Cook Book
The Bloomsbury Cookbook: Recipes for Life, Love & Art
Tequila Mockingbird by Tim Federle
Plenty by Yotam Ottolenghi

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