Sara Faye Lieber’s essay “Bohemian Rhapsody” begins with a meditation on sleep, a most basic and necessary human activity, and goes on to describe how her own becomes impeded by an infestation of bedbugs.
With the critters steadily on the rise since the seventies, Lieber relates a striking and personal account of her experience, drawing unique parallels between the consequences of the bugs and her labor as an archive worker, digitizing (and seemingly minimizing) countless decades of encyclopedic information.
Forced to choose the most cherished of her possessions and trash the rest, Lieber ponders the value of information, its organization, and what, in the age where precious little is still precious, we would choose to save. Read it here.
