I’ve been doing some traveling lately. Over Memorial Day weekend, I visited Nebraska with my wife, who is a Cornhusker from Omaha. We spent the weekend visiting the graves of her family, some of whom are buried in the city and others in cemeteries not far away in small towns with quaint names—Valley, Wahoo, Fremont. … Read more
Last Saturday, I traveled to Blue Earth, Minnesota, to take part in their Giant Days parade and to be part of the dedication of the new literary look they’ve created for their library. Here’s what the completed wall at the Blue Earth Community Library and Fossil Discovery Center looks like with all the photos in … Read more
Librarians are the most wonderful, creative people. Meredith Vaselaar, of the Adrian Branch Library in Adrian, Minnesota, has created a world of tiny books that her four Library Dragons help to highlight. As you can see from the photo, the books behind the dragons are of normal size, which makes the dragons and the books … Read more
Tomorrow, I’ll drive almost three hundred miles to present a program at a library in Ponca, Nebraska, a town with a population of less than a thousand people. At a recent signing, a guy who’d seen the event calendar on my website asked me, as if I was crazy, “Why would a New York Times … Read more
My father was a high school English teacher, and he attempted to give his children a great appreciation for literature with a capital L. It worked with my brothers and sister, but for some reason, in my case, it didn’t take. Me, I was in love with comic books, especially the superhero kind from Marvel … Read more