Books Every Book Lover Needs to Read (Today!)

A story begins when we open its cover, and ends when we reach its last page...except in the case of artist Nina Katchadourian. In Sorted Books, a project started nearly 20 years ago, she reveals the new narratives books can tell when stacked and organized by the titles printed on their spines. What results are short prose-poems. Some are witty, such as, "Speaking of Pianists/Am I Too Loud?/Beethoven Lives Upstairs"; others thought-provoking, such as "Paradise/Extra Innings/After Death;" but all have a way of proving that the seemingly ordinary things around us have fascinating new possibilities.