Kassia Oset

"Libraries are more than just books, the librarians chant, tossing their solitary copy of Buddenbrooks into the skip." As a library student & worker, I think this attack is spot-on. Weeping over cuts will not save institutions that don't believe in what makes them worthwhile.

Reading Mansfield Park and shocked by how much of it is about landscaping

Amusing to me that the city named a plaza after him, but no one calls it that

Introducing the cast of the next Wes Anderson movie

Prideful owner of what is very possibly the world's only Ivy Compton-Burnett phone case

If you could wave a wand and know one of these languages, which would it be?

Everyone with a "You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me" mug has to write a report on this or else be sacrificed

When I say Sanborn, you say maps: Sanborn MAPS, Sanborn MAPS

Printed off some National Gallery paintings and "hung" them throughout the house for my birthday so I can wander around like an Anita Brookner character and sigh 🥲

Based on a novel by Elinor Glyn, the woman who sinned on a tiger skin

The spoils of Quirky Books

This is not a book. It’s a nuclear weapon.

How do you get someone interested in a book they never connected with? Annotate it with pictures of cattle.

Can't believe Queequeg has been smoking a pipe in the Barnes & Noble cafe for years and I didn't notice

Please ask me to be on your book podcast, because I will neglect to bring headphones and talk twice as long as you planned 😇

The owner of a Detroit car wash who recently died had a helicopter drop thousands of dollars onto pedestrians below as his last wish:

Archivists remain so lacking in social skills that they accidentally made everyone think the National Archives were closing to the public. Love you, dust-ridden freaks who have never known sunlight. Don’t change.

I have a few of these and they are among my most precious treasures