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Added July 21, 2014
Pimps make the best librarians. Psycho killers, the worst. Ditto con men.
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Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian
Avi Steinberg
Published
2010
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Claudia knew that she could never pull off the old-fashioned kind of running away. That is, running away in the heat of anger with a knapsack on her back.
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Imagine this: You’ve just spent three weeks painstakingly replicating a Picasso painting from scratch—you’ve scrutinized documentation about the artist’s creative process; you’ve practiced his brushstrokes, so your work will look convincing; you’ve even painted in noted preliminary images, then covered them up, because that’s what he did. You’ve toiled over this, all for mere seconds of screen time in a film.