The United States Poet Laureate Emeritus reflects on libraries, wonder and discovery.
Category: Nonfiction
Borders Can be Borderlands
Filmmaker Mara Ahmed on borderlands as liminal, in-between, intersectional, hybrid spaces
Blue Sermon: Hate to Tell You
Catherine Lee on Blues great Arnett Cobb, “The Wild Man of the Tenor Sax,” and Jim Crow racism in the south.
Book Review: A Saint from Texas
G.E. Schwartz on a sprawling story of identical twin sisters from a small town, whose lives take entirely different directions
English as a Second Language
An essay by Cynthia Bruckman
David Baldacci: My Library Memories
The best-selling author David Baldacci on the magical books of his childhood, Encyclopedia Brown, The Three Investigators, and the vital importance of libraries
Our Library Memories
Special guest authors Charles Todd and Caroline Todd share their library memories!
My Library Memories
Special guest author Lois Lowry kicks off our new column and shares her own library memories!
