The lead field file
Commissioning briefA reading city has many front doors
The library card, bookstore shelf, workshop table, and small stage serve different readers.
This desk begins with local institutions' catalogs and calendars, then commissions criticism and interviews. A listing confirms an event; it does not substitute for reading the book.
The first package will trace one locally connected book through author, editor or publisher, bookseller or librarian, and reader event—without reproducing protected text beyond a short, permitted excerpt.