Press
“The Talk of the Town” – Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, February 10, 2025.
“...the most wonderful exhibition of the decade.” – Hannes Stein, Die Welt, February 20, 2025.
“...a courageous act of poetic imagination.” – Alberto Manguel, La Repubblica, December 25, 2024.
“...a very elaborate and whimsical bit taken to its most creative extremes.” – Adrian Horton, The Guardian, December 11, 2024.
“Imaginary Books is as learnedly entertaining as Byers’s earlier study, The Private Library, was exhaustive and magisterial.” – Michael Dirda, The Washington Post, January 3, 2025.
“...a thrilling combination of craftmanship and imagination.” – Jonathon Keats, Forbes, December 20, 2024.
“This irresistible conceptual-art installation displays meticulously constructed simulacra of books that don’t exist — some because they’ve been lost, others because they never did exist. Look for “Love’s Labour’s Won,” Ernest Hemingway’s first novel, and the “Necronomicon.” – Will Heinrich, New York Times, September 9, 2024.
“...a testament to centuries of human imagination, as well as the power that lies in the liminal space between our imaginations and reality.” – Elizabeth Minkel, Atlas Obscura, January 23, 2025
“...a celebration of how books inhabit a magical space between our physical and imagined worlds....” – Charlie Connelly, The New European, January 8, 2025.