librarian

Already, in red states, public school teachers and librarians are harassed by self-appointed vigilantes.

Henry writes about novelists, literary agents and librarians.

“The United States is testing its future through California,” he said in an essay for the website of the California State Library, which he served as state librarian from 1994 to 2004.

But when a local librarian put a book of Flannery O’Connor short stories in her hands, something shifted.

It drew about 500 raucous participants, many of them wearing the bright red shirts associated with United Teachers Los Angeles, which represents about 38,000 teachers, counselors, social workers, nurses and librarians.