08.26.2010 Community Columns Can’t bookstores all just get along? The days are getting shorter, the start of school approaches, and opportunities for lying about at the beach with a book are diminishing. Advance planning will be necessary to...
07.29.2010 Community Columns Short fiction an endangered species? One thing you learn as a librarian, a professional adviser to readers, is that a lot of people “hate” short stories. As far as fiction is concerned, they only...
06.03.2010 Community Columns Novel probes the residues of racism “Writing, remember, is the only art in which the creator is publicly judged by people who do precisely the same thing, but as a rule, less well.” Graydon Carter,...
05.06.2010 Community Columns Lessons learned in an Oregon bookstore When I was recently in Portland, Ore., I had to go see the world-famous Powell’s Books. I visit bookstores as well as libraries when I am in a new...
04.08.2010 Community Columns Words have power to uplift women Natalie Merchant started to weep and it made us cry, thousands of us, mostly librarians, who were gathered in Portland, Oregon, for the Public Library Association meeting. It is...