Prison Library

by Avi Steinberg

Prison LibraryThis essay is a novel essay about what happened to Abbey Steinberg, a graduate of Harvard University, as he became a librarian at the Boston Prison. Through the numerous inmates in the prison library and the episodes they encounter with them, they convey the laughing nostalgia and tears of heartbreak. A young man who has been meeting and wandering about the world is also a frank growth story when he meets people in prison and seeks his place.What will happen to the prison library? Everything you can not do in a cell! Inmates chat, fight, watch movies, and prepare for trial. In addition, we keep hidden letters to bans or gays and prisons, and trade secretly. I sometimes read books.The librarian suffers a lot between the various inmates who do all kinds of things in the library and the guards who regard the library as a ghost. The authors also convey the grieving smile of struggling librarians and mistakes in tough characters, and the sorrow that hurts ones heart through the story of the inmates. The big attraction is the vivid portrayal of the character. Cunning con artists, imposing pimps, timid drug addicts, ridiculous gangs, and violent guards move alive in the authors description. This is probably the reason why the production team that has produced popular American dramas such as "Office" and "Ugly Betty" decided to dramatize the book. Also, the neat and fluent translation of the young novelist Han Yu-ju, who once studied to become a librarian, is helping the reader to read the taste.

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Published March 2, 2012

About the author

Avi Steinberg's first book, Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian, was a San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year. He is a regular contributor to The New Yorker’s Culture Desk blog. His essays have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Salon, The Paris Review Daily and n+1.