![]() ![]() The books are all in my orange-grove farmhouse, in towering stacks, like a movie set for an old bookstore. ![]() Maybe these books can keep us going as we read about the places we or our parents came from, regions we don’t know, homes lived in decades or centuries ago or homes made last year by someone new. I made 1,001 books my goal, just as Scheherazade in “The Arabian Nights” told that many stories to stay alive. I worked with the mapping company Esri to find specific geographic locations for each book, each idea of place contained in fiction, because American literature is a celebration of literary regions: city neighborhoods, rural parishes, small towns, ranches and boroughs, riverbanks and desert vistas, night bayous and frozen tundra, asphalt playgrounds and deep woods. ![]() Some are from the 19th century, with cloth bindings some were published last month. This may seem unbelievable, but in the course of creating this map, I filled my house with 1,001 books. ![]()
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