In the Stacks Author:Various In The Stacks, by Americas leading librarian, is a volume of most unusual stories about that most evocative place: the library. Libraries are created worlds containing row upon row of shelves holding miles and miles of books. For many writers and bookworms the local public library was the portal the imagination first stepped across. In on... more »e volume, the cream of twentieth century short fiction from Borgess "The Library of Babel" to John Cheevers "Trouble of Marcie Flint" to Lorrie Moores "Community Life" about libraries and librarians, and the terrors and pleasures contained in books. Lunacy, love, obsession and the joy of reading are all gathered together in a volume most would agree is long overdue.« less