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For the love of reading: the origin of The Great Library

October 12, 2022 • Mary Ito • Season 1 • Episode 29

To me a library has always been a magical place – a place of discovery, worlds unknown, and the unexpected. Writer Cyrille Martinez, a librarian himself, writes about the magical library. His story is a loving meditation on the meaning of libraries and how they can come alive – a place where ideas and stories roam free. In this excerpt, he looks at how it all began: the origin of the Great Library.

Excerpted from “The Dark Library” by Cyrille Rodriguez. Translated by Joseph Patrick Stancil. Copyright © 2020 by Cyrille Rodriguez. Published by arrangement with Coach House Books. https://chbooks.com/

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