![]() ![]() "You work at the Bay?" the thief asks after he has taken Steinberg's money at knifepoint. He is a regular contributor to The New Yorker’s Culture Desk blog. and the man who robs Steinberg near his home one night. 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. It's a terrific book, hilarious enough to make you want to read its lines to anyone who happens to be around, and profound enough to have you care deeply about many of the men and women whose crimes have brought them to Boston's Suffolk County House of Correction - or "the Bay," as it's known to prisoners and staff. ![]() Steinberg's recollections of what followed are gathered in Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian (Doubleday 399 pages $26). Unsure of what to do after graduating college - "All I had to my name was a haircut that resembled a bad toupee and a stalled novel" - Steinberg answered a Craigslist ad to be a prison librarian. Facebook Twitter Email Avi Steinberg Debbi CooperĪvi Steinberg went to Harvard, but he may have received a better education at the institution whose ivy-free gates he next entered: prison. ![]()
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