Oprah Magazine

It was fun to talk about “the great rainbow debate” with Elena Nicolaou of Oprah Magazine as she explored people delight and disgust about sorting books by color. We talked about why this works for some but not for everyone, and I gave her my two cents about why people (particularly book people) feel so strongly about the topic.

“Bookshelves are a picture of our identity. Our past. Of places we’ve traveled, things we read in college, things we want to read,” Smirl says. “In a room of books, you can give evidence of the many different parts of someone’s life. There’s no other object in the home we can do that with.” 

Read the full article here at Oprah Magazine.