by Cooper West | Apr 17, 2016 | Writing Update
KEEP IN MIND: Sunday Six pullouts are by their nature spoilery. So if you don’t want to know, don’t read! More from Parker! I’m on the downhill run with this story; it’s already at 95k words, and will probably tip over 100k when finished. So, you’ll...
by Cooper West | Apr 13, 2016 | Editorial
I don’t think anything brings pain to a librarian’s heart as much as losing a library. Collectively, we still raise our glasses in tearful memorial to the ancient world’s Library of Alexandria, but that is hardly the only “lost library”...
by Cooper West | Apr 10, 2016 | Writing
KEEP IN MIND: Sunday Six pullouts are by their nature spoilery. So if you don’t want to know, don’t read! More from Parker! This pullout is from an earlier chapter, where Greg picks up Parker, a rescue dog: “I didn’t put a bowl of water on the floor for...
by Cooper West | Apr 7, 2016 | Bucket List
I love libraries. I love books. I especially love both together, and with a fine patina of age. These are the reasons I originally considered library school, as I thought it might be a good track to take for becoming an antiquarian book dealer. That was a long time...
by Cooper West | Apr 3, 2016 | Writing Process
KEEP IN MIND: Sunday Six pullouts are by their nature spoilery. So if you don’t want to know, don’t read! It has, shockingly, been a whole damn year since I pulled six sentences from Parker for you all to read. Wow. Well, April is the month I’m wrapping this...