Who can forget, “I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me?” accompanied by a drawing, my first appreciation for the interplay between visual stimulus and thought shaped artistically in words. Thus began my love for the sounds of words, rhythm, imagery, and the notion that one could write a poem about anything. In the North Hollywood Public Library, a venerable building with creaking hardwood floor, the air scented with floor wax, old books, and eucalyptus trees, I met my first poet, Robert Louis Stevenson, author of A Child’s Garden of Verses. “In the nineteen fifties, when I was nine, my favorite television show was “What’s My Line?” The show opened life’s possibilities of “producing a product” or “providing a service,” and I remember declaring, “I want to be Dorothy Killgallen.”
“How the Dewey Decimal System Shaped My Life” Vreeland shares with us her memories of the North Hollywood Public Library and the important role librarians have played in her life and her work. Tiffany, returns with LISETTE’S LIST, a richly imagined story of a woman’s awakening in the south of Vichy France-to the power of art, to the beauty of provincial life, and to love in the midst of war. This summer, Susan Vreeland, the bestselling author of such acclaimed novels as Girl in Hyacinth Blue and Clara and Mr.
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