“For what else is this collection but a disorder to which habit has accommodated itself to such an extent that it can appear as order?” - Walter Benjamin from Unpacking My Library

For the next year Zuckerman-Hartung’s library will reside at the Poor Farm. (http://poorfarmexperiment.org/)

She hopes to learn more about her books through their absence. In 1972 Susan Sontag moved to Paris, leaving her already enormous library behind. She wrote “I try better to hear my own voice and discover what I really think and really feel."