Libraries
1 week ago
Yet Another Reason to Visit the New York Public Library: Authors’ Locks of Hair?
That’s not a typo. As shared in this recent New Yorker article, the famed library has lots of odd artifacts…
1 week ago
Humiliation, Multiplication, and Ice Cream
In the memoir Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance, the author describes a scene in first grade where six-year-old J.D. realizes…
March 23, 2018
Reading Books in Their Settings
I love this list from the New York Public Library about reading books set in New York City in New…
February 21, 2018
The Boy Who Lived in a Library
StoryCorp’s video memoir of Ronald Clark, who grew up living in the Washington Height’s public library, will make you yearn…
January 25, 2018
Literature as “the operating instructions,” in Memory of Ursula K. Le Guin
Le Guin’s essays are some of the loveliest prose I’ve read recently, her style outmatched only by her astuteness for…
October 11, 2016
Libraries as Lifelines
Libraries are the other public education system. In many ways, they have the potential to do things that public schools…