Ammon Shea

Do you even have a phone book in your house or office anymore? We’ll learn about the origins of the book and even people who obsessively collect old phone books this hour with Ammon Shea. His new book is “The Phone Book: The Curious History of the Book That Everyone Uses But No One Reads” (Perigree, 2010).

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Why would someone set out to read a dictionary from end to end and what might they learn along the way? We’ll find out this hour with author and bibliophile Ammon Shea, whose new book is “Reading the OED: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages” (Perigree, 2009).

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