Fuck it, I thought. As Don Rumsfeld once said, "You go to war with the army you have, not the army you wish you had.

Avi Steinberg


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He told me that archivists and librarians were opposite personas. True librarians are unsentimental. They're pragmatic, concerned with the newest, cleanest, most popular books. Archivists, on the other hand, are only peripherally interested in what other people like, and much prefer the rare to the useful.

Avi Steinberg


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I flipped to the author’s photo in the Library of America edition of O’Connor’s collected works, and forked it over. Solitary examined the photo.
“Okay,” she said, handing it back, “I’ll read it.”
What in Flannery O’Connor’s countenance met with Solitary’s approval?
“I dunno,” she said. “She looks kind of busted up, y’know? She ain’t too pretty. I trust her.

Avi Steinberg

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Unresolved shit, man, resolves itself eventually."
--Chudney Franklin

Avi Steinberg


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Harvard was a lovely assisted-living facility from which I'd emerged, like my classmates, stupider and more confident.

Avi Steinberg

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