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Zaid, Gabriel. So Many Books: Reading and Publishing in an Age of Abundance.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
Tr. by Natasha Wimmer. Sept. 2003. 144p, Paul Dry, paper, $9.95 (1-58988-003-X). 028.
"The human race publishes a book every thirty seconds," observes Mexico City-based poet and essayist Zaid, and therefore "how is a single book among the millions to find its readers?" This is the conundrum upon which Zaid builds his incisive, wry, ultimately celebratory meditation on the chaotic and wasteful, yet exciting and felicitous world of books. Believing that culture is a conversation conducted on many levels around various loci, of which books constitute a vital and crucial number, Zaid ...
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