I wish I could be again the reader I was at age twelve, when each novel Mrs. Fermin the librarian handed me dependably launched me into a thrilling, expansive realm, after which I’d reenter the junior high halls bearing secrets—more than this grind is possible! Until encountering Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness in eighth grade, I had […]

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