{"id":63516,"date":"2017-08-12T17:00:41","date_gmt":"2017-08-12T10:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/shelf-life-novelist-hanya-yanagihara-on-living-with-12000-books\/"},"modified":"2017-08-12T17:09:27","modified_gmt":"2017-08-12T10:09:27","slug":"shelf-life-novelist-hanya-yanagihara-on-living-with-12000-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/shelf-life-novelist-hanya-yanagihara-on-living-with-12000-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Shelf life: novelist Hanya Yanagihara on living with 12,000 books"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nThe A Little Life author opens the doors to her one-bedroom New York apartmentMan Booker prize-shortlisted author, editor of the New York Times Style magazine T, travel writer: Hanya Yanagihara has distilled three of her greatest passions \u2013 books, art and travel \u2013 into her one-bedroom apartment in downtown Manhattan. The flat, housed in a steel-framed former bottle factory, has no dividing walls: instead, a vast, double-sided bookcase, containing more than 12,000 titles, acts \u201cas a kind of suggestion of a wall\u201d, Yanagihara says. On one side are her private quarters \u2013 bedroom, study, wardrobe and bathroom \u2013 on the other, a living room, kitchen and dining table. Floors are black, polished floorboards.Every book is arranged alphabetically by author. \u201cAnyone who arranges their books by colour doesn\u2019t truly care what\u2019s in the books,\u201d she says. \u201cI\u2019ve always had them and collected them. I have multiple editions of certain titles so I can give them away. But I do try to do a big cull every few years.\u201d Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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