“I don't need no Smith and Wesson, man, I got Merriam and Webster.”
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 years.”
Avi Steinberg, Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian“I don't need no Smith and Wesson, man, I got Merriam and Webster.”
Avi Steinberg, Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian“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 a strange and inexplicable career move.”
Avi Steinberg, Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian