Alphabet Soup

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When Ido Bruno asked me to write something for a book he was editing in honor of the new home for the National Library of Israel, I got anxious. The book is a tribute to libraries, which I always saw as bureaucratic, policed, arranged and depressive places – the exact opposite of a story.
As someone who prefers to pass along books I like, instead of stor…

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