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Library Poem

Julia Donaldson, The Guardian.

As It Was In The Beginning

Jane Ciabattari, New York Times:

Like a mother shielding her infant from brutal reality, Ausubel has found her own muted way of writing about the Holocaust. “As I wrote through deeply sad stories, I found that hope was in the telling,” she says on her publisher’s Web site, explaining how she retrieved and reimagined family fables. “As long as the story was told, it was alive.”

I Greet You In The Middle Of A Great Career: A Brief History Of Blurbs

Alan Levinovitz, The Millions:

Blovers and blaps… what next? For my part, I can see where Orwell, Paglia, and Miller are coming from, and I certainly wouldn’t bemoan the disappearance of blurbs. But not everyone is like me.

That Vague, Crepuscular Time When Youth Has Passed: What Is It?

Gail Sheehy, New York Times:

If middle age is truly the prime of life, as posited by Patricia Cohen, the author of “In Our Prime,” then why do so many Americans go to such lengths to deny they belong to that club? When Ms. Cohen was doing her research, she tells us, the first question her subjects nervously asked was “When is middle age?”