The Secret Library: A Book Lover''s Journey Through Curiosities of Literature

About Oliver Tearle

Oliver Tearle is a lecturer in English at Loughborough University (UK) where he completed a PhD (in 2010) and has taught for the last seven years having also taught at the University of Warwick. He runs the blog Interesting Literature: A Library of Literary Interestingness which gets 1.5 million views a month and has a weekly feature where he reveals a little-known work of literature. The blog also has an accompanying Facebook page and Twitter feed the latter of which is followed by among many others the makers of the television series QI the Oxford English Dictionary the British Library the British Museum the Times Literary Supplement and numerous comedians writers academics journalists politicians and celebrities. Oliver is the author of two academic books Bewilderments of Vision: Hallucination and Literature 18801914 (Sussex 2013) and T. E. Hulme and Modernism (Bloomsbury paperback edition 2015) as well as the co-editor of an experimental volume of critical and creative pieces Crrritic! (Sussex 2011). His proudest achievement is coining the word 'bibliosmia' to describe the smell of old books.