Shelf life: novelist Hanya Yanagihara on living with 12,000 books

[Man Booker prize-shortlisted author](https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/oct/11/man-booker-prize-2015-shortlist-yanagihara-sahota-james-obioma-tyler-mccarthy), editor of the New York Times Style magazine T, [travel writer](http://www.cntraveler.com/story/author-hanya-yanagihara-on-why-everyone-should-visit-jaipur-more-than-once): [Hanya Yanagihara](https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jul/26/hanya-yanagihara-i-wanted-everything-turned-up-a-little-too-high-interview-a-little-life) has distilled three of her greatest passions – books, art and travel – into her one-bedroom apartment in downtown Manhattan. The flat, housed in a steel-framed former bottle factory, has no dividing walls: instead, a vast, double-sided bookcase, containing more than 12,000 titles, acts “as a kind of suggestion of a wall”, Yanagihara says.)