Luanne Rice

please join me with debra curtis at the contemporary theater company tomorrow at 6, to discuss her amazing debut novel LAWS OF LOVE AND LOGIC. tickets available here, through Wakefield Books.

https://wakefieldbooks.com/event/2026-03-11/debra-curtis-conversation-luanne-rice

sometimes (always), but especially when the world is a certain way (like now), we need books.
these photos are from yesterday, when i was doing research at the providence athenaeum. The Providence Athenaeum was founded in 1836; later, it incorporated the providence library of 1753.
when i was 25, a young writer in love with a young law student, i went to the athenaeum most days to write. we lived a few blocks down benefit street. i most often chose a desk on the mezzanine, and i wrote my first published short story there.
yesterday i looked in the card catalogue (an actual card catalogue—be still, my beating heart!!!)—and there were my novels. i’m not sure i can express what that meant to me.
i encourage you to visit your local library and walk through the stacks. you might be amazed by how real and true the books are, expressing multiple points of view, no matter the era in which they were written.
take heart—i am scared, too. believe in books.
do you love your library? please tell us about it—and your favorite librarian—here.
i love you.