What to Read While Occupying Wall Street

The Occupy Wall Street library is a "haphazardly organized" pop-up institution occupying a bench on the side of Zuccotti Park. The New Yorker's Book Bench blog reported that there "is no rhyme or reason to the selection: a volume of Walter Benjamin's writing sits beside Curtis Sittenfeld's Prep; the only books that are sectioned off are the children's books. All together, about one hundred titles--along with back issues of Harper's--await protesters and passersby--in the spirit of the affair, you needn't be an 'insider' to borrow."

The "appointed caretaker" is Betsy Fagin, a librarian who lives in Brooklyn. She "came to the protest for the first time and found a short stack of books lying on the ground where everyone was camped out. She decided to go to one of the organizational meetings for the protests and ask if anyone else thought it would be a good idea to start a proper library," Book Bench wrote.  
 

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