Ebook: Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian

Part 1: Undelivered -- 1: Up & up and low low -- 2: Books are not mailboxes -- Part 2: Delivered -- 3: Dandelion polenta -- 4: Delivered -- Prologue -- Acknowledgments.;In this captivating memoir, Steinberg, a Harvard grad and struggling obituary writer, spends two years as a librarian and writing instructor at a Boston prison, attracting con men, minor prophets, ghosts, and an assortment of quirky regulars searching for the perfect book and a connection to the outside world.