municipal library

Stopping at a foreign municipal library is a perfect way to enrich your travel experience, especially if you find a literary gem or two along the way.

The scenic port with a crammed marina, pristine beaches, ancient ruins and great food draws its share of tourists, so when I found the Koundoureios municipal library, I assured my greeters that I wasn’t looking for guidebooks.

"It was a united family. I played football at a local club and went to the municipal library. I read a lot."

He was preparing three books for publication, and working on several films and videos; he was organizing boxes and designating where papers should go after he died — some to a municipal library in Lithuania, some to Mana Contemporary in Jersey City.

When he died in 1968, he left his literary estate — including Kafka’s papers — to Esther Hoffe, and his will stipulated that the estate would eventually be deposited, at Hoffe’s discretion, in “the library of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Municipal Library of Tel Aviv, or another public archive in Israel or abroad.”