“Is this place haunted?” my colleague asks. Five of us from the Chemical Heritage Foundation are seated in the surgical amphitheater at the historic Pennsylvania Hospital. The hospital’s archivist is leaning on the non-historic operating table, awash in the sunlight that made nineteenth century surgical operations possible. She pauses, considering my colleague’s question, and cocksContinue reading “Standing in squares of sunshine”
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The Year I Learned to Love Reading: 2015 book list
Here’s the secret I’ve harbored for many years: I have never liked to read. Sure, I had to read a lot of books in grad school. And, sure, I have always liked wandering used books stores, opening books I’d never heard of and hunting down Virginia Woolf and Charlotte Bronte—for the longest time the onlyContinue reading “The Year I Learned to Love Reading: 2015 book list”
Grey Sea & Sky 