libraries
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On poetry: Erin Belieu’s ‘When at a Certain Party in NYC’
You can’t always get what you want – from your local library – but you might just find, you get what you need.
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On returning books unread.
I would’ve liked to write a post about Edward Baptist’s “The Half Has Never Been Told,” because it seemed like he had an interesting thesis. From what I gathered reading the first five chapters and the short blurb on the dust jacket, he wanted to write about the contribution of the American slave trade, especially…

