July 28, 2016: Ain’t this nifty? The Awl has just posted “How to Get Rid of Books,” the third wee essay in my three-part series (still) formerly titled Your Books: Three Essays on What to Do with Them; here’s zee link. Where this one came from: a couple of years ago, I began selecting books to read from my shelves according to the projected likelihood that I wouldn’t like them, by which I mean that I hoped I wouldn’t: a negative response to a book would give me license to dump it. So continues my plight to solve the first world–est problem of all: too many damn books. Won’t you think of the children?