I grew up in a house of books. In my family’s suburban home in the 1970s, nearly every room had a bookcase or built-in shelves. But it was a librarian’s nightmare. Fiction and nonfiction mingled indiscriminately. An E.L. Doctorow novel sat between Leo Rosten’s “The Joys of Yiddish” and the pop-psych classic “I’m OK, You’re […]
Rachele Kanigel
Rachele Kanigel is a freelance writer and a professor of journalism at San Francisco State University.