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In Defense of Owning Too Many Books

Feb 20, 2019 4 min read Literature books reading

One night, years ago, I was so excited over the books I would someday read I couldn’t sleep. As a child, the happiest moment of my week was driving home from the

Shire Reckonings

Oct 17, 2012 5 min read Literature books The Lord of the Rings The Shire

“What fun! What fun to be off again, off on the road with dwarves! This is what I have been really longing for, for years! Goodbye!’ he said, looking at his old home

Same Old Story

Jul 13, 2012 4 min read Literature books reading

This article originally appeared in The Curator January 9, 2009. The third or fourth time he spoke to me, my husband laughed aloud at the mild exasperation that must have shown in my

No Kind of Dancer

May 25, 2012 4 min read Humanity books dance reading

It was Robert Earl Keen who sang, on his debut album No Kind of Dancer, “I tried hard to tell you I was no kind of dancer,” and I have always felt I

And Then Came Sebastian Barry

Jan 27, 2012 5 min read Humanity Literature books Sebastian Barry

As a young girl, my fictitious heroine was Anastasia Krupnik, the star of Lois Lowry’s acclaimed (and sometimes-banned) series of Anastasia books. Despite Anastasia’s comparatively more remarkable life – her father, a