Happy Birthday!

JFC.

Morning. This is very cool: browse and search John Cage’s library: johncage.org/library.cfm

“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...

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.

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

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

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