We Need Diverse Books
When I was in graduate school, working on a degree in teaching, I was especially keen to learn how to teach reading so that all students would end up loving…
Prison Reading
So the latest financial outlaw and crypto-currency-exchange fraudster, Sam Bankman-Fried, was quoted in an interview prior to his downfall and arrest as proclaiming “I would never read a book.” Who…
What Is Reading For?
Recently the New York Times devoted an entire Sunday Opinion section to the question “What Is School For?” What a crazy question, I thought! Being a former teacher, the mother…
The Book Doctor Is In: Q&A with Bookbinder Emma Kiely-Hampson
All book lovers know that any day is the perfect day to sit down with a new book or an old favorite, but sometimes the realities of life leave our…
Lessons Passed Down
My favorite gift to newborns is, you guessed it, a book, but one that I especially like to give (along with Pat the Bunny!) is any edition of Mother Goose…
Remote Control
A while ago I was invited to be a judge for the 2022 Aspen Words Literary Prize. My husband, Tom Friedman of the New York Times, had served a 9-year…