Leah Price edits the Print/Screen section of Public Books. Her books include What We Talk About When We Talk About Books (2019; Christian Gauss Prize), How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain (2012; Patten Prize, Channing Prize), and The Anthology and the Rise of the Novel (2000). She edited Further Reading (with Matthew Rubery, 2020), Unpacking my Library (2011), and Literary Secretaries/Secretarial Culture (with Pam Thurschwell, 2005). She writes for the New York Times Book Review, London Review of Books, Times Literary Supplement, Public Books, and New York Review of Books. She teaches at Rutgers University, where she is the founding director of the Initiative for the Book.
Leah Price
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Public Thinker: Merve Emre Throws a Party for Different Readers
“One way to think about the act of annotating is that you are that meddlesome party gossip, telling the reader how to draw connections between the different parts of the text.”
B-Sides: Celia Fremlin’s “The Hours Before Dawn”
As Celia Fremlin told it three decades after the fact, The Hours Before Dawn was written at night. Lurching around Hampstead Heath behind a stroller that …
B-Sides: Celia Fremlin’s “The Hours Before Dawn”
As Celia Fremlin told it three decades after the fact, The Hours Before Dawn was written at night. Lurching around Hampstead Heath behind a stroller that …
Last Offices
Wondering how your life has changed over the past two decades? Just rummage through your email for old autoresponds. “Out of office” referred to unlucky politicians until the 1970s, when UNIX began to host vacation messages. Then, delays were counted in weeks; now, warnings that “Professor Price will be out of office from 5:30 p.m. […]
Books On Books
You need a birthday present, let’s say for your cousin’s boyfriend. You’re bad at guessing shirt sizes, so it might as well be a book. You find a bookstore (if you’re lucky). You make for the section that nobody knows what to call: in front of the cash register, between the chocolate bars and fridge […]
