Brian Cassidy

Happy Birthday!

JFC.

Morning. This is very cool: browse and search John Cage’s library:

johncage.org/library.cfm

Oliver Sacks Archive Heads to the New York Public Library The voluminous papers of the celebrated neurologist include letters, notebooks, drafts and other traces of a man who couldn’t stop writing.

“I hope I may enjoy to the end this beautiful world — I recognize no other — that I retain consciousness and lucidity, and that I may think and write till the pen falls out of my fingers.”

Oliver Sacks Archive Heads to the New York Public Library:

www.nytimes.com/2024/10/04/a...

Me at the book fair when someone tells me they like “my collection.”

Rare book donations sought for auction to help Ukraine booksellers Organisers are also seeking artworks and manuscripts while authors are invited to donate signed first-edition copies of their books for an online auction in November

www.theguardian.com/books/2023/s...