We can honor the value of libraries while still asking the hard question: Are we funding a modern public need or maintaining a nostalgic institution whose scale no longer matches the town’s priorities in an era of diminishing resources?
OK, I collaborate with artificial intelligence. Writers are not supposed to admit this out loud. When I say it, academics bristle, journalists look wary, and my writer friends go still. Yet after 10 years of silence, it is this unlikely partnership that has brought me back to the page.
