![]() Steinberg proves to be a keen observer, and a morally serious one. Steinberg’s sentences start to pop out at you, at first because they’re funny and then because they’re acidly funny. The Big Blue Machine.”īut a funny thing happens to “Running the Books” as it inches forward. The tone is, more or less, “Augusten Burroughs Goes to the Clink.” Here’s a not atypical passage: “It was official. The early bits of “Running the Books” are as hopped-up as a spaniel with a new rubber ball. ![]() He applied for the prison library job when he saw it posted on Craigslist. ![]() Steinberg is a self-described “asthmatic Jewish kid,” a young Harvard graduate and a stalled novelist. Avi Steinberg’s memoir, “Running the Books,” about his job as a prison librarian at “the Bay” - the Suffolk County House of Correction in South Bay near Boston - gets off to an obnoxious start. ![]()
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