In the stacks : short stories about libraries and librarians

An anthology of short stories in defence of reading by some of the greatest practitioners of the genre, including Isaac Babel, Italo Calvino, Jorge Luis Borges, Alice Munro, Lori Moore and H.H.

Munro (Saki). IN THE STACKS, edited by America's leading librarian, is a volume of most unusual stories about that most evocative place: the library.

For many writers and bookworms the local public library was the portal the imagination first stepped across.

This volume collects the cream of twentieth century short fiction writing about libraries and librarians and the terrors and pleasures contained in books - from Borge's 'The Library of Babel' to John Cheever's 'Trouble of Marcie Flint' and Lorrie Moore's 'Community Life'.

Lunacy, love, obsession and the joy of reading are all gathered together in a volume most would agree is long overdue.