“I get paid to do the Hokey Pokey. It’s kind of a cool gig,” Anne Leyon Kilkenny says of her job at Providence Public Library (PPL) on Empire Street. She joined PPL 15 years ago as an early childhood/children’s educator, which was a new position at the time. The Library, a 150-year-old nonprofit institution, wanted […]
While you may read alone, on the train, or in your bed, is there a conversation involved in the process of reading? Reading is considered a solitary act, but what happens before picking up a book and feasting your eyes on the page? Most readers have a favorite bookstore, and so they frequent it. One […]
Jenny Wood, the narrator of “Remember Me, Remember Me,” is a ghost who died at age three and developed the ability to absorb the memories of other ghosts, gathering into herself interior worlds she would never have otherwise encountered. At one point in my afterlife I roamed from one Little Free Library to another. Many […]