New Carnegie Medal winners Megha Majumdar and Yiyun Li love libraries
NEW YORK (AP) — Novelist Megha Majumdar, one of this year's winners of medals presented by the American Library Association, doesn't only visit libraries for the reading. There's the jigsaw puzzle table in midtown Manhattan and the telescope she borrowed from the central branch of Brooklyn Public Library so she could have a closer look at the sky at night. And libraries, wherever the location, are an ideal place to get some writing done. “I go often enough that my I have favorite places to...
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