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Alan Bennett: My Libraries, Christopher Tayler: Alan Hollinghurst
Baffled at a Bookcase
Alan Bennett: My Libraries
‘I have always been happy in libraries, though without ever being entirely at ease there,’ Alan Bennett writes in the latest issue of the LRB. ‘A scene that seems to crop up regularly in plays that I have written has a character, often a young man, standing in front of a bookcase feeling baffled. He – and occasionally she – is overwhelmed by the amount of stuff that has been written and the ground to be covered.’ From the Armley Public Library to the Bodleian, from Leeds Central Library to the Round Room of the Public Record Office in Chancery Lane, Bennett remembers the libraries that have shaped his reading and his writing life. ‘In the current struggle to preserve public libraries not enough stress has been laid on the library as a place not just a facility,’ he says. ‘Of the libraries I have mentioned the most important for me was that first one, the dark and unprepossessing Armley Junior Library. I had just learned to read. I needed books. Add computers to that requirement maybe but a child from a poor family is today in exactly the same boat.’ More
Primrose Hill Lectures 2011
http://www.smvph.org.uk/events/2011-summer-lectures.html
http://www.eventelephant.com/primrosehilllectures2011
Alan Bennett on Libraries - Wednesday 15 June
Alan Bennett's talk was recorded on 15 June 2011 at St Mary's Church, Primrose Hill as part of the Primrose Hill Summer Lectures, and the text appears in the LRB of 28 July 2011.
http://www.lrb.co.uk/2011/06/15/alan-bennett/primrose-hill-lectures-2011
Baffled at a Bookcase
Alan Bennett returns to the library
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v33/n15/alan-bennett/baffled-at-a-bookcase
