So Many Books, 2nd Edition: Reading and Publishing in an Age of Abundance

by Gabriel Zaid, Natasha Wimmer (Translator), Robin Sloan (Introduction)

A charming new edition of a much-loved book about books

"A playful celebrant of literary proliferation."
—New Yorker (on the first edition)

“This slim volume is above all a book about vastness; about oceanic tides of language, about the feelings they produce, for writer and reader alike. About how words work in the marketplace, and how they fail to work, too. About books and the internet and culture itself.”
—From Robin Sloan’s Introduction

In So Many Books, Gabriel Zaid offers his observations on the literary a highly original analysis of the predicament that readers, authors, publishers, booksellers, librarians, and teachers find themselves in today—when there are simply more books than any of us can contemplate. Translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer, this second edition includes a new introduction by Robin Sloan and clever illustrations by Grant Silverstein.

110 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 7, 2025

About the author

Gabriel Zaid has been a member of the Mexican Academy of Language since 1986. He has distinguished himself for never appearing in public. A lot of his centre on poetry and and criticism of the literary establishment.