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Libraries. A place where people too poor to afford Internet access at home can access information and communities that will help them participate in the political process. Or as conservatives call them: Lie-berries: a direct danger to the our dystopian … Continue reading →

Savage Harvest A Tale of Cannibals, Colonialism, and Michael Rockefeller’s Tragic Quest for Primitive Art By Carl Hoffman William Morrow & Company, Hardcover, 9780062116154, 322pp.

  Beverly Cleary, who turned 100 last week, has written more than three dozen children’s books over the course of her life, starting with her first book, “Henry Huggins”, in 1950. Cleary was working as a librarian when a group of little … Continue reading →

Nancy smiling in front of a Hill Street book exchange in Eagle Rock

A Little Life By Hanya Yanagihara Doubleday Books, Hardcover, 9780385539258, 736pp. Publication Date: March 10, 2015

John Stanley was born in Harlem, NYC on this date in 1914., so happy birthday, John Stanley. Stanley is one of my all-time favorite comics writers,  the most consistently funny, the most consistently idiosyncratic, and the most handsome writer to ever … Continue reading →

Steps to an Ecology of Mind by Gregory Bateson By Gregory Bateson; Mary Catherine Bateson (Foreword by) University of Chicago Press, Paperback, 9780226039053, 533pp. Publication Date: April 15, 2000  

The Girl with No Past By Kathryn Croft Bookouture, Paperback, 9781910751244, 302pp. Publication Date: October 2, 2015