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Marginal | The New Yorker

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Talk story about marginalia at the New York Public Library.

Save this story Save this story On a recent Monday, Anne Garner, a librarian at the main branch of the New York Public Library, laid out some books to show. She works in the Berg Collection, where the library keeps rare books, and where the reading room is a hushed, scholars-only sanctum with long, elegant, lamp-lit wooden tables. Anne Garner’s specialty is marginalia, and she had place-marked some of her favorites for Jennifer Lam, of the library’s press office, and another visitor. Twenty books were open on the tables. Each rested on a rectangle of red or billiard-green felt, and, below the

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