Chip Ward, How the Public Library Became Heartbreak Hotel
Chip Ward, How the Public Library Became Heartbreak Hotel Back in the 1950s, when every domestic scandal and nightmare, political or familial, wasn’t the subject of a television show, the library was my peephole into the mysteries of the adult universe. The key question, when it came to interpreting the world back then, was this: Would the librarian who ruled over the juvenile section free you to
