During a recent trip to the library, I checked out two teen books that came highly recommended: The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness and Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi. It was a bit eerie reading the two back-to-back: In both, a boy from a strange and in many ways unwelcoming society discovers […]
Read MoreIn my former life as a bookseller, part of my job was to help align readers with the books they wanted to read, and one of my great joys was introducing readers to new authors and new texts. I followed book bloggers and major (NY Times, NPR, Washington Post, etc.) book review sites to stay […]
Read MoreWhen I need to step away from the whir of work machines the Freedom Tower calls: radiant by light of day by evening glow serene #nycpoetweet — Eileen Kern (@eileenkern) April 2, 2014 April is National Poetry Month, and I can’t get over how fantastic some of the #NYCPOETWEET poems are. It looks like a number of NYC public service […]
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