Writers & Libraries

 Lucy Sherriff. "Why beavers were parachuted into the Idaho wilderness 73 years ago," National Geographic,      Sept. 16, 2021.  h...

 https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/21/books/ruth-freitag-dead.html"Ruth Freitag, Librarian to the Stars, Dies at 96," New York Times...

"Fresh Litter," (Talk of the Town), New Yorker , December 23, 2019, pp. 31-32. The source material "Old Possum's Book o...

Bill Nye, Everything All at Once , Rodale, 2017. When I was a kid and I wanted to look up an odd or obscure fact or a piece of inf...

John McPhee, "Checkpoints," in Draft No.4: John McPhee on the Writing Process , Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 201,  pp. 129-155. ...

Kirn, Walter. Easy Chair: Illiberal Values. Harper’s vol. 337, no 2019 (Aug. 2018). p5-7. Paula was our town librarian. She used ...

  Mickey Hart, Jay Stevens, & Fredric Lieberman. Drumming at the Edge of Magic: A Journey Into the Spirit of Percussion ,  HarperSa...

Chip Ward. Stony Mesa Sagas. Torrey House Press. 2017. But in his last story, the one he didn'’t complete, he learned he leaned...

Elizabeth McKenzie, “The Portable Veblen, Penguin Press, 2016. “Veb, did I ever tell you how I became interested in neurology?”...

J.K. Rawlings. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone . Bloomsbury, 1997. They had indeed been searching books for Flamel...

"Earth and the Librarian," in Jean Valentine,  Break the Glass . Copper Canyon Press, 2010, p.25. COMMENT I love this poem ...