On NPR’s All Things Considered last night, W. Ralph Eubanks talked about how the bookmobile shaped his life [Listen to the Story],
…it is my identity as reader that shaped the type of writer that I am. And I owe that to an old Ford bookmobile, a summertime pleasure that changed the way I see the world. Rather than feeling alone and isolated in turmoil-ridden Mississippi, a cool, air-conditioned library on wheels connected me to a world beyond the limits of where I grew up. In my life, that has made all the difference.
Eubanks, the Director of Publishing at The Library of Congress, wrote the memoir Ever is a Long Time, called one of the best books of 2003 by the Washington Post’s Jonathan Yardley and The House at the End of the Road.
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| Retail Price: |
$15.95 |
| Paperback: |
264 pages |
| Publisher: |
Basic Books – (2005-01-03) |
| ISBN / EAN: |
0465021050 / 9780465021055 |
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| Retail Price: |
$26.99 |
| Hardcover: |
224 pages |
| Publisher: |
Smithsonian – (2009-06-01) |
| ISBN / EAN: |
006137573X / 9780061375736 |
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