![]() ![]() It turned out to be a private members’ club where any books on show were merely a “feature”. Walking through Covent Garden with her editor, she came across a place called “Library”. Smith prefaces her 12 stories with a telling anecdote. In the past five years, 337 have closed with more still in danger. Central to her new collection, Public Library, which comes hot on the heels of her triple-award-winning novel How to Be Both (2014), is the profound effect literature can have on our everyday lives, as embodied by the humble library.Īs has been extensively reported, libraries are under threat. Ali Smith might equally claim this as the fiction writer’s task. TS Eliot once wrote that the critic’s job was to “exhibit the relations of literature – not to 'life’, as something contrasted to literature, but to all the other activities, which, together with literature, are the components of life”. ![]()
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