Two years ago, during the lockdown, I wrote that I had become addicted to those little bird-box libraries that make walking here something of a literary pilgrimage. I’m still addicted. And almost t…
that I had become addicted to those little bird-box libraries that make walking here something of a literary pilgrimage.
The writer will remain unnamed, because privacy is something to be respected, even by reporters. But here’s the short form:About four o’clock one afternoon, before the dog-crowd comes out, I felt a need for one of those short, head-clearing walks. A good target, I figured, would be a spot some blocks away, where somebody or other was maintaining what I’d long thought was the best little library in town. I won’t give titles, because some of those might tip the owner’s identity.
One thing led to another. The VFW, just back from watching 20 minutes of an unfinished film by a Very Famous Director, made me sit on his porch and chat for a while. His front-porch forum, he said, had become something of an institution thanks to Covid. Interesting people of all kinds—filmmakers, thinkers, Nobel Prize winners—would stop by for a visit. He actually kept a little log, where most of them signed in.
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