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Running the books the adventures of an accidental prison librarian

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 out...

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Main Author: Steinberg, Avi.
Corporate Authors: OverDrive, Inc.
Other Authors: Rubin, Dustin.
Format: Audiobooks eAudiobook Downloads eAudiobook
Language: English
Published: [Westminster, Md.] : Books on Tape, 2010.
Subjects:
Steinberg, Avi.
Prison librarians > Massachusetts > Boston > Biography.
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Summary: 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.
Item Description: Downloadable audio file.
Title from: Title details screen.
Unabridged.
Duration: 12:02:19.
Playing Time: 12:02:19
Format: Requires OverDrive Media Console (file size: 173019 KB).
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
ISBN: 9780307876430
0307876438
9780307876423
030787642X
Author Notes: Avi Steinberg is the author of Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian, which was a San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year. He is a regular contributor to The New Yorker 's Culture Desk blog. His essays have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Salon, The Paris Review Daily, and n+1 .

Dustin Rubin is an audiobook narrator whose credits include Avi Steinberg's Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian.

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