Maryanne Wolfe considers the science of reading and worries about the state of reading in our culture. Ursula Le Guin believes books will always endure. Geraldine Brooks created a fictional history for a real book, the Sarajevo Haggadah. Alberto Manguel assembled a personal library of some thirty thousand volumes, housed in a barn in a village in France. Children's book editor Susan Hirschmann talks about some of the famous authors she worked with.

