Libraries as Third Places
The library is the last room in the city where you can exist without buying anything. On third places, and what we lose when we lose them.
Tag: cities
Walking as Punctuation
A sentence needs commas and a day needs walks. On the ambulatory semicolon: the walk that joins two unrelated thoughts and makes them a paragraph.
The Bookstore at Closing Time
Eleven years of turning the sign to CLOSED. What a used bookstore sounds like in its last half hour, and what the register tape never recorded.