Author: Kristin Kimball
Book: The Dirty Life
History: Brand new 2010 paperback from personal collection
Smell: A room full of empty grocery carts
Author: Dan Simmons
Book: The Fall of Hyperion
History: 1995 mass-market paperback from Fort Collins Public Library
Smell: A box of unsharpened pencils
Author: Alain de Botton
Book: How Proust Can Change Your Life
History: Worn 1998 paperback from Fort Collins Public Library
Smell: A bag of ties stored in the garage in an old plastic bag
Author: Dan Simmons
Book: Hyperion
History: 1995 mass-market paperback from Fort Collins Public Library
Smell: Yesterday’s newspaper on your grandfather’s kitchen counter
Author: Steve Andreas and Charles Faulkner
Book: NLP: The New Technology of Achievement
History: Personal collection, a marked-up 1996 paperback
Smell: An empty plastic bucket in a quiet room
Author: Christopher McDougall
Book: Born to Run (A Hidden Tribe, Superatheletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen)
History: Already beat-up Fort Collins Public Library copy printed in 2009
Smell: Just opened pack of crew-neck t-shirts
Author: J.D. Salinger
Book: Franny and Zooey
History: Personal collection, a 1961 hardback via a used book store
Smell: Late morning windowsill in the library stacks just after the sun hits
Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Book: Night Flight
History: Personal collection, 1974 paperback via the Fort Collins Public Library
Smell: Empty manilla envelopes in a well-swept, tiled storeroom
