Writers & Libraries

Charles Dickens,  Hard Times , 1854.  (Pocket Books ed., Supplementary Material written by Kathleen Heal, 2007). There was a library...

Herman Melville, Moby Dick or The Whale   1851. EXTRACTS. (Supplied by a Sub-Sub-Librarian).       It will be ...

Ruth Franklin. Transported: How should children’s books deal with the Holocaust?  New Yorker , July 23, 2018, 64-69.  I was fourteen wh...

"Guidelines for the Treatment of Sacred Objects," [poem] in Heid E. Erdrich. National Monuments . Michigan State University Pres...

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

David Baron, American Eclipse: A Nation's Epic Race to Catch the Shadow of the Moon and Win the Glory of the World,  Liveright Publ...

Viet Than Nguyen. Seeing My Son Read is a Bittersweet Joy . New York Times, August 5, 2018. p.4SR. Books were not a priority for my parent...