AN ACADEMIC IN AMERICA

Red-Hot Library Lust

His college has a fine collection, but what he really longs for are the tactile pleasures of a great university library

By THOMAS H. BENTON

I have written several columns about my love for books and libraries, but now it is time for me to come out of the closet, as it were, and confess that I have become a connoisseur of library porn.

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