![]() ![]() Characters abound: There are his fellow librarians (Dice, Boat, Fat Kat), the inmates “OG, young G, boo, bro, baby boy, brutha, dude, cuz, dawg, P, G, daddy, pimpin’” as well as the Hobbes girls (three neck-scarred writers in Steinberg’s creative writing class at the library nicknamed “Nasty,” “Brutish” and “Short”). ![]() There’s nothing elitist about a prison library, he tells us in “Running the Books.” “To gain entrance, one need only commit a felony.” A disappointment to his parents (“big time Orthodox failure”) and their community, Steinberg wrote his senior thesis on Bugs Bunny, somehow got into Harvard and graduated with a stalled novel loosely titled “Easy Go.” Tired of writing freelance obits, to get healthcare he took a job running a prison library in Boston. For an asthmatic Jewish kid, it’s got a nice ring to it.” ![]() “In the joint, they call me Bookie.” They also call Avi Steinberg “the main book man. The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian ![]()
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