A p.s. from the Operations Manager:
We wind down 2022 here at 847 Chapel Street with a flurry of activity -- thank you to those of you who came to the big party here on December 2nd -- and then we'll be taking a little break.
I know you're wondering what's new that you might find appealing to read on a cold winter afternoon. Here's a little list of recent acquisitions that are on the shelves (mostly in the front display cases, but not exclusively) that you can borrow with impunity, if you're up to date on your Library membership:
Fiction:
Abdulrasak Gurnah, After Lives (Nobel Prize winner!)
Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead
Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger
Ocean Vuong, Time is a Mother
Non-Fiction:
Hilton Als, My Pinup
Lary Bloom, I'll Take New Haven (essays on living here! as mentioned in the New Haven Independent)
Nicholas Dawidoff, The Other Side of Prospect (another New Haven-focused book, by another local author!)
John Freeman, The Park (poetry)
Adam Hochschild, American Midnight
Susan Rogers, This is What it Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You
Jody Rosen, Two Wheels Good: The History and Mystery of the Bicycle
George Saunders, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
Furthermore, on realizing that our poetry section lacked certain major writers of the 20th century, we've recently added to the Poetry section. Now available: collections by May Sarton, Jorie Graham, Robert Service, Pablo Neruda, James Merrill, and others who you'd be astonished weren't already on the shelves.
If you have any questions about books, or anything else we may be able to help with, email the Library: Home@InstituteLibrary.org, or me, directly: Eva@InstituteLibrary.org. Onward to 2023, y'all.
--Eva Geertz
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