
Writers on Reading
March is National Reading Month, which I am happy to celebrate since—like most writers—I love to read! My earliest reading memories are of sitting in my father’s lap before supper as he read to me from a thick red book called The World’s Best Fairy Tales. Both of my parents were avid readers and regular users of the public library, and I have followed in their footsteps. Recently I was sifting through a pile of papers in my office when I came across an issue of the New York T