Answer: anything! Frank and Gwen discuss why for-profit businesses cannot and should not take libraries’ place in society. Plus, recommendations for two small books that contain very big worlds.

Book Recommendations

Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata

The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elizabeth Tova Bailey

The Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson

Oleg Kagan’s opinion piece about how libraries are not companies, and more information about Forbes deleting the original op-ed.

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