For most of us, librarians are the Quiet people behind the desk, who, apart from the occasional "shush," vanish into the background.
This 10th Anniversary Edition includes nearly 100 pages of added content (including a new forward and afterward)..
Punctuated by his own highly subjective research into library history-from Andrew Carnegie\'s Gilded Age to today\'s Afghanistan-Douglas gives us a surprising (and sometimes hilarious) look at the lives which make up the social institution that is his library.
With a keen eye for the absurd and a Kesey-esque cast of characters (witness the Librarian who is sure Thomas Pynchon is Julia Roberts\'s latest flame), Douglas takes us where few readers have gone before.
But in Quiet, Please, McSweeney\'s contributor Scott Douglas puts the quirky caretakers of our literature front and center.
For most of us, librarians are the Quiet people behind the desk, who, apart from the occasional "shush," vanish into the background
