Growing up, before my parents became extremely lenient and our residence became ‘the party house,’ my parents were sometimes weird about what I could and couldn’t read. Although they were incredibly awesome about my purchasing books: weekly we’d visit the local independent store Chevaliers that was within walking distance of our house. I don’t knowContinue reading
Michele Filgate is the Events Coordinator at RiverRun Books in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. She recently made New Hampshire Magazine‘s “It List” for 2010. Michele is a writer and a book critic, and a member of the National Book Critics Circle. She’s written for The Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Bookslut, The Quarterly Conversation, The Brooklyn Rail, CBSNews.com, TheContinue reading
1. I had my first shameless obsession with an English teacher when I was in kindergarten. Of course, she was also the craft maker and the hand holder and the nap enforcer, but I knew her true colors. She liked reading the best. It was in that formative year, the same year I discovered DunkaroosContinue reading