#as&when

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Overheard at New York Public Library.

9/23/15

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“I find if there’s an image deep enough inside of me, then the book is already written.”

Ron Rash, New York Public Library, 9/23/15

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“I’m very uneasy about personal writing. I don’t even like to write words with the letter ‘I’ in them.”

Ben Greenman, Brooklyn Book Festival, 9/20/15

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Censorship happens when people want to deny a life outside of their own exists.

Christopher Myers

Brooklyn Book Festival

9/20/15

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Overheard at Brooklyn Book Festival.

9/20/15

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“It is very often that I find myself saying the wrong thing, and picking up a book, seeing someone else’s words that they have taken time to carefully choose, and giving someone that book, is the best way to make amends for that.”

Joe Meno, Bookcourt, 9/17/15

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Nothing makes a poem seem more inevitable and primal than seeing it etched into a stone wall.