Whenever I am stressed out by my life and have fantasies of leaving the city, I think of the places I love here, and chief among them, the piece de resistance, is The New York Society Library. I'm sitting at a desk or reading in the stacks and hours go by, the world outside forgotten as the mind expands into beckoning worlds and geographies, new, yet uncannily recognizable. It seems to exist in another dimension of time, as all libraries do, only more so. The initiates already know and newcomers immediately understand, as if we've signed a pact to keep our treasure intact. Yet, despite the articles and plaudits, it remains, if not a "best-kept secret," at least a kind of sacred ground, a sanctuary, private and quiet. Steven Spielberg: A Life in Films (Yale University Press) and the new edition of her book From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies (University of Chicago Press) are available now. I'm pleased of course to have it recognized as the outstanding institution that it is, but I worry it will become overdiscovered and overrun. Molly Haskell has written for many publications, including The Village Voice, The New York Times, Ms., Saturday Review, and Vogue. Discover Molly Haskell's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. In fact, every time there's an article on the Society Library I shudder. Molly Haskell (Molly Clark Haskell) was born on 29 September, 1939 in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA, is a Writer, Miscellaneous. (To listen to David Case's superb reading of Trollope is to fall in love with the author of the Barsetshire and Palliser novels all over again.) Such a cornucopia of luxuries. There are books for every mood, not to mention audiotapes, my latest addiction.
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For research, I'll start with one purpose-reading a book on which an upcoming movie is based, or the earlier work of a writer I'm reviewing and wind up somewhere else, above or beyond, grasping a book whose touch or title arrested my hand. Less vast and intimidating than the Public Library, its atmosphere is closer to that of a personal library, but its purview larger. I'll give her Lincoln Center-and Fairway, too-but my home away from home, my office away from my office, the without-which-not of my life in New York is the Society Library. I wouldn't want to have to choose between them, but let's just say there are only six films playing at the Lincoln Plaza at any one time, while there are upwards of 250,000 books at my cherished Library. For Haskell, Mari- lyn Monroe is the key to understanding female. "Yes, but you've got The New York Society Library." As Molly Haskell's essay illus- trates, a closer look at the movie stars of that time. "You've got the Lincoln Plaza Theatre," I said enviously. A West Side friend and I were comparing neighborhoods.
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