In a small loft on Perry Street in the West Village lives Madeline Kripke and her extraordinary 20,000-volume dictionary collection. Kripke’s collection is world-class: Jesse Sheidlower, Editor at Large of… Read more »

As my housemates in Park Slope could tell you, books spill out of the built-in shelves of our apartment. They’re stacked and piled high on a wardrobe and arranged precariously… Read more »