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Wryly Noted-Books About Books John D Against the Grain Volume 29 | Issue 3 Article 53 June 2017 Wryly Noted-Books About Books John D. Riley Gabriel Books, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/atg Part of the Library and Information Science Commons Recommended Citation Riley, John D. (2017) "Wryly Noted-Books About Books," Against the Grain: Vol. 29: Iss. 3, Article 53. DOI: https://doi.org/10.7771/2380-176X.7792 This document has been made available through Purdue e-Pubs, a service of the Purdue University Libraries. Please contact [email protected] for additional information. searching. The frequent URLs do not display as clickable hot links, and Book Reviews in fact, many of those links are no longer valid. The URLs have not from page 38 been checked, updated or modified, and some of them lead to dead ends. This book accompanies the same author’s Open Access (MIT Press, can be dense, and in part because it is rewarding to bump up against 2012), which operates as more of a purpose-built handbook to the topic. Suber’s sharp and sometimes unexpected insights. A brief glossary defines ten core terms. These include not only the The selected pieces date from 2002 to 2011, and especially 2004 difference between “green” and “gold” OA reflecting the choice between to 2008. This was the crucial era of the Budapest Open Access Ini- repositories and journals, but also “gratis” and “libre” OA reflecting the tiative, the first Creative Commons licenses, the appearance of the presence or absence of fees and limits based on licenses or copyright. Directory of Open Access Journals, the launch of new publishers like The index helpfully uncovers concepts that are scattered across the PLOS, and intense debates about OA mandates for publications paid essays (and are not always apparent from the essay titles). Prominent for by public NIH grants. The essays are grouped into eight sections, recurring themes include: barriers to access; authors and their rights; the defining OA and its benefits, analyzing publishing and funding models, varieties of competing and complementary books and eBooks; aspects of and rebutting critics. copyright; embargoes as a point of argument; funding sources for pub- The last two sections (“More on the Landscape of Open Access” lishing and OA publishing; details about “green OA” and repositories; and “Bits of the Bigger Picture”) may be the most entertaining and the scholarly journal environment; the roles and burdens of libraries; thought-provoking. Suber brings his substantial powers of analysis to the development of the OA movement; the National Institutes of Health bear on diverse topics such as the special features of publishing in the hu- as a crucial arena for OA developments; peer review; publication fees; manities, retrospective OA “unbinding” of key publications (not unlike and the article submission process. the work of Knowledge Unlatched today), challenges in making ETDs In an era in which OA concepts are largely taken for granted — (electronic theses and dissertations) available through Open Access, and even if implementation is still contested — it is worthwhile to return historical lessons for OA publishing that can be found in other “sender to some original precepts and forecasts about the purposes, challenges pays” delivery systems such as postage stamps and broadcast media. and rewards of Open Access. MIT Press published this work both in print format and as an Open Access eBook, freely available in PDF for viewing, downloading and Wryly Noted — Books About Books Column Editor: John D. Riley (Against the Grain Contributor and Owner, Gabriel Books) <[email protected]> https://www.facebook.com/Gabriel-Books-121098841238921/ Shakespeare & Co, Paris: A History of the acterized as “a socialist utopia masquerading Butler Yeat’s poem “The Circus Animals’ Rag & Bone Shop of the Heart. Edited by as a bookstore.” And it certainly lived up to Desertion.” Krista Halverson with a foreword by Jeanette that name. Whitman (purportedly a distant One key to the bookshop’s success, other Winterson and an epilogue by Sylvia Whit- cousin of Walt Whitman) let visitors live in than Whitman’s bibliomania and generous man. (ISBN: 979-10-96101-00-9 Published the shop in exchange for a few hours of book heart, was the fact that there were no public 2016 by the Bookshop Itself.) shelving or counter work. He called these libraries in Paris at that time. George operated visitors “Tumbleweeds” and also required that a lending library as much to make a little mon- they read at least one book a day and write a ey to keep the shop afloat as to not part with he original Shakespeare and Company two page autobiography. These his precious collection of books. He bookshop was founded by Sylvia Beach brief autobiographies make up also kept the shop in the black by Tin 1919 and it operated both as a book- nearly half of the book. The selling the books of Henry Miller, store and a lending library. It is most famous shop was open nineteen hours which were banned in the U.S. for acting as a salon for the “Lost Generation” a day, seven days a week and and Joyce’s Ulysses, which was and was a regular haunt of Hemingway, the during that time you could find still banned in Ireland! Fitzgeralds, Ezra Pound, and James Joyce. spontaneously performed live This is a book for anyone Sylvia Beach even published Joyce’s Ulysses music, poetry readings, and who loves books and literature when no other publisher would touch it. That general cavorting by members and bookshops. Shakespeare first incarnation of the bookshop closed in and hangers on of the Beat and Company is the Shake- 1941 when Paris came under Nazi occupation Generation. Whitman knew speare of all bookshops. Luck- and never opened again. Under its inspiration, Lawrence Ferlinghetti from ily for us the shop is still open George Whitman opened a bookshop and when he was a student at the and is now run by Whitman’s lending library named Mistral in 1951. That Sorbonne and his bookshop daughter, Sylvia. When she bookshop changed its name to Shakespeare was the inspiration for Ferling- took over in 2002 she made vast and Company in 1964 with the blessing of hetti’s City Lights bookshop improvements to the shop, such Sylvia Beach. It also happened to be the 400th in San Francisco. as bringing in a cash register to anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth. This book Besides the Tumbleweeds’ replace the wooden cash box is the story of that shop. autobiographies, which consist largely of their that served for over forty years and she added Everyone has an image of Shakespeare experiences at the bookshop and in Paris, there a telephone to replace having to run out to the and Company in their mind, whether they is an illustrated retelling of the history of Syl- pay phone booth to make calls. have been there or not: Sylvia Beach chatting via Beach’s shop. The book is full of many Those of who have been lucky enough to with the half blind James Joyce, the Shake- color photographs and paintings from George visit recall the unique qualities of that iconic speare head logo at Kilometer Zero Paris, or Whitman’s shop and reminiscences written by bookshop. I remember entering the shop one perhaps they have a personal memory from a Whitman himself that were originally meant cold November afternoon in 1971 and being visit there. 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