“ I think you’re more an archivist than a librarian, he said.He told me that archivists and librarians were opposite personas. True librarians are unsentimental. They’re pragmatic, concerned with the ne… Avi Steinberg
“ Yet for quixotic reasons--namely, that I enjoyed writing obits--I had decided to scale back on articles about city life in order to write exclusively about the city's dead. For even less money. It was… Avi Steinberg
“ He had no use for guns—these were for people who didn’t know how to use words. Or, to quote him, I don’t need no Smith and Wesson, man, I got Merriam and Webster. Avi Steinberg
“ But that didn’t stop him from going to church every week, for almost twenty years now, kneeling and confessing to what he called the sin of locking a human being in a cage. Avi Steinberg
“ In his eagerness to advance onto this new path, he was training himself to cook by simply pairing words. From his reading, he knew that the words balsamic vinegar went with the word asparagus even tho… Avi Steinberg
“ Though, from my perspective, it was almost cheating to teach a guy whose idea of a love poem was I wanna make love to you nice in your heart. Nearly any string of vowels and consonants would sing comp… Avi Steinberg
“ I flipped to the author’s photo in the Library of America edition of O’Connor’s collected works, and forked it over. Solitary examined the photo.Okay, she said, handing it back, I’ll read it. What in… Avi Steinberg
“ All across America public libraries were, and are, being shut down, while prisons-with libraries-were, and are, being built. This has been a choice the American public has been making for over thirty… Avi Steinberg
