excerpt from One writer's beginnings Eudora Welty -- excerpt from Summer Edith Wharton -- excerpt from Main Street Sinclair Lewis -- excerpt from Grand opening Jon Hassler -- Library scene, small town, 1941 John R. Nixon, Jr. -- Hillsboro's good luck Dorothy Canfield Fisher -- Bookworm, from Blooming Susan Allen Toth.
excerpt from New York Jew Alfred Kazin -- A library lion speaks E.B. White -- The heart of the heart of the library William Cole -- excerpt from Plexus Henry Miller -- Back issues Elizabeth Hardwick -- Reading room E.B. White -- Response of the gentle scholars Edmund Wilson -- excerpt from Bronx primitive Kate Simon -- excerpt from A son of the middle border Hamlin Garland -- Poetry reading in the downtown library Cathy Stern.
excerpt from Betsy and Tacy go down town Maud Hart Lovelace -- Growing up with a past Howard A. Wilson -- Lucy Wallis, from Centerville, U.S.A. Charles Merz -- Marian the librarian Meredith Willson -- The library Nikki Giovanni -- Gloss on a decision of the Council of Nicaca Joanne Greenberg.
excerpt from A quiet place Rose Blue -- excerpt from Thimble summer Elizabeth Enright -- Covert Street Michael Waters -- excerpt from It Stephen King -- D'Artagnan on Ninth Street Pete Hamill -- excerpt from A tree grows in Brooklyn Betty Smith -- excerpt from An American childhood Annie Dillard -- Somebody always grabs the purple Henry Roth -- The Carnegie Library, Juvenile Division Randall Jarrell -- Children selecting books in a library Randall Jarrell -- excerpt from Half Magic Edward Eager.
Wants Grace Paley -- A note on library policy Larry Rubin -- Reading room, the New York Public Library Richard Eberhart -- The doctors' club John Taylor -- Summer librarian Sue Kaufman.
QL969.C9 Anthony Boucher -- The library book Isaac Asimov -- The day of the bookmobile Patricia McGerr -- excerpt from The treasure of Alpheus Winterborn John Bellairs -- The reference room John D. MacDonald.
Library Richard Armour -- excerpt from The happy bookers Richard Armour -- The Carnegie libraries Finley Peter Dunne -- Three short poems / Pyke Johnson, Jr. -- The interest gauge Edmund Lester Pearson -- Song of the library staff Sam Walter Foss -- excerpt from Beezus and Ramona Beverly Cleary -- excerpt from Rufus M. Eleanor Estes.
Library scene Robert Pinsky -- Daily library visitor Marsden Hartley -- In the periodical room Dannye Romine Powell -- Now Adam Dannye Romine Powell -- A girl in a library Randall Jarrell -- Library Louis Jenkins -- To a scholar in the stacks Howard Nemerov -- The library of Morpheus, from Free the realm of Morpheus Steven Millhauser -- excerpt from Angel in the parlor Nancy Willard.
The liberry Bel Kaufman -- What the library means to me Amy Tan -- A summer's reading Bernard Malamud -- excerpt from A walker in the city Alfred Kazin -- excerpt from Go tell it on the mountain James Baldwin -- excerpt from Black boy Richard Wright -- excerpt from Goodbye, Columbus Philip Roth -- The trouble of Marcie Flint John Cheever -- Seth Compton Edgar Lee Masters -- Rhoda Pitkin Edgar Lee Masters -- The library John Greenleaf Whittier -- Libraries Karl Shapiro -- The premise of meaning Archibald MacLeish.
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