I have a love affair with libraries. Growing up in a small New Hampshire town,
our library was more artifact than lending institution, but I liked it anyway.
It shared the property line
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
Just as lawyers are asked legal advice over dinner and doctors are asked to
diagnose conditions over cocktails, so writers are regularly asked to give free
consultations on How To Get Published. Much
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
