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In anticipating opening our town’s first library, we had ordered five hundred library cards. Three weeks after we opened, we had to order five hundred …
Ann Kjellberg
Feb 26 2
When Sue Halpern's small Vermont town lost its bookmobile, it looked like it would be without a library, but not for long
Ann Kjellberg
Feb 24
If writing is the heart of what you care about, then you have to do it and do it as well and as persistently as you can. It’s about a primary agreement…
Ann Kjellberg
Feb 16
The day I decided that writing was what I wanted to do I was working as a millwright, maintaining the engines of an overhead crane above four electric …
Ann Kjellberg
Feb 14
If you read no further than the first sentence of this post: please order your books online from this new site, Bookshop, instead of Amazon!
Ann Kjellberg
Feb 6
In The Gift Lewis Hyde considers the economies of gift-giving  and all kinds of “social work and soul work, ” labors people undertake as their own end,…
Ann Kjellberg
Feb 2 2
When I found myself in Wyoming for a month this autumn, I packed Gretel Ehrlich’s The Solace of Open Spaces, wondering how it would read in 2019. Ehrli…
Ann Kjellberg
Jan 29
(Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai receiving the 2019 National Book Award for Translated Literature) Krasznahorkai’s novels are bracingly consisten…
Ann Kjellberg
Jan 23
I liked walking the nuns home from school, holding their bags, hoping for a glimpse of their chilly, varnished cave and its holdings. They walked in pa…
Ann Kjellberg
Jan 21
Who knew spooks could write? Amaryllis Fox certainly can. Her Life Undercover: Coming of Age in the CIA is an addictive read. If you’re up for a thrill…
Ann Kjellberg
Jan 15
Jonathan Karp wrote prophetically in 2008 of the need for more focused attention on the publication of books in order to secure what we might know call…
Ann Kjellberg
Jan 10
Last week saw the loss of another titan of the book world, Sonny Mehta, for thirty years the editor and publisher of the Knopf imprint and the several …
Ann Kjellberg
Jan 9
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