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Reid Byers

@reid-byers.bsky.social
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Imaginary Books, Oak Knoll Press, 2024. The Private Library, Oak Knoll Press, 2021. The Baxter Society, President The Grolier Club, convener of the New England group Fellowship of American Bibliophilic Societies, convener of Living with Books

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Reid Byers @reid-byers.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Trump's latest proposed budget is attempting to destroy federal funding for your local libraries and museums. That's why we built all the tools you need to help fight back today. action.everylibrary.org/saveimls2026 via @everylibrary.bsky.social
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Take Action To Save Federal Funding for Libraries!
Page 56 of Trump’s proposed budget calls for the destruction of the Institute of Museum and Library Services. The ONLY source of federal funding for libraries.
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Reid Byers @reid-byers.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
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Reid Byers @reid-byers.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
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Portland author has collected his dream library of books – and most of them don’t exist
Hemingway’s missing novel. Alice’s backwards-printed book in Through the Looking Glass. Sylvia Plath’s never-finished autobiography. Reid Byers owns copies of all those ‘invisible’ books that biblioph...
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Reid Byers @reid-byers.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
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The Best Fake Books—Made Real
At the Grolier Club, in midtown, a collection of imaginary volumes—the play within “Hamlet,” Hemingway’s lost first novel—are bound, scuffed, and shelved.
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Reid Byers @reid-byers.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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The Best Fake Books—Made Real
At the Grolier Club, in midtown, a collection of imaginary volumes—the play within “Hamlet,” Hemingway’s lost first novel—are bound, scuffed, and shelved.
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Reid Byers @reid-byers.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Michael Dirda at the Washington Post www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...
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Review | In praise of three ‘unimportant’ books
Delving into the unusual worlds of Reid Byers’s “Imaginary Books,” Paul Valéry’s “Monsieur Teste” and “The Anthologist’s Folly,” edited by Johnny Mains.
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Reid Byers @reid-byers.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
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There’s a Library of Dreams at the Grolier Club
Seeing the titles in the club’s Rare Book Room is much like visiting the Museum of Jurassic Technology in Los Angeles, where ontological mind games are cloaked in a veneer of authenticity.
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