What would drive you to steal? Hunger? Greed? For John Charles Gilkey, it’s a sort of love that led him to his crimes. Gilkey is obsessed with books and stole them to satisfy his lust. The journalist Allison Hoover Bartlett has just published a book about Gilkey, and about Utah’s own self-described "bibliodick" Ken Sanders, who hunted the thief plaguing his trade. Bartlett joins Doug to talk about the romance of books and the lengths some will go to possess them.
NPR Books: June 19: Guillermo del Toro
This is the NPR Books podcast, a weekly which collects book-related stories from the previous week… the first segment of this one is an interview with Guillermo del Toro, who is talking about his new vampire novel called The Strain - he also talks about his "second house", a place full of books!
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Library damage
"One selfish person was not caring about the rest of us."
Dr Kristian Jensen, head of collections at the British Library, on the academic who stole pages from historic books.
From: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/audio/2008/nov/21/british-library-books-damage
The full story is here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/nov/21/british-library-sues-iranian-academic
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The Book of Lost Books, by Stuart Kelly - West Port Book Festival
In The Book of Lost Books, Stuart Kelly reaches into the recesses of history to trace books, great or perhaps otherwise, that have been lost, stolen, incinerated, abandoned or mutilated through the ages. In a sparkling event, he reads extracts which deal his own fascination with lost books, Agathon, the Greek tragic poet whose works are all lost, the lost adventures of Sir Richard Burton, and many intriguing literary titbits.