Star Tribune Books Editor Laurie Hertzel began noticing the Little Free Libraries around her Twin Cities neighborhood. Little Free Libraries are compact, self-service stations where readers can share books (earlier this summer, a 9-year-old in Kansas operated a similar Little Free Library until his Kansas town forced him to remove it). Hertzel, meanwhile, began photographing the libraries she came across, including a modified bicycle and another that replicates the house it sits in front of.
Little Free Libraries of St. Paul
Ian MacAllen
Ian MacAllen is the author of Red Sauce: How Italian Food Became American (Rowman & Littlefield, April 2022). His writing has appeared in Chicago Review of Books, Southern Review of Books, The Offing, 45th Parallel Magazine, Little Fiction, Vol 1. Brooklyn, and elsewhere. Find him at IanMacAllen.com.