Author: Michael Gorra

Michael Gorra teaches English at Smith College. His books include The Bells in their Silence: Travels through Germany and, as editor, The Portable Conrad.
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10/23/2007

In Praise of the Town Library

Built on leafy streets in sleepy hamlets, it was part of the democratization of America. Small and quiet, open and generous, it is inseparable from our civic life.

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