By day, Leah Rachel von Essen is the editor-in-chief of Chicago Booth Magazine at the University of Chicago. By night time, she evaluations genre-bending fiction for Booklist, and writes usually as a senior contributor at Book Riot. Her weblog While Reading and Walking has over 10,000 devoted followers over a number of social media shops, together with Instagram. She writes passionately about books in translation, continual sickness and bias in healthcare, queer books, twisty SFF, and magical realism and folklore. She was one of a choose few bookstagrammers named to NewCity’s Chicago Lit50 in 2022. She is an avid traveler, a passionate fan of ladies’s basketball and soccer, and a lifelong learner. Twitter: @reading_while
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By day, Leah Rachel von Essen is the editor-in-chief of Chicago Booth Magazine at the University of Chicago. By night time, she evaluations genre-bending fiction for Booklist, and writes usually as a senior contributor at Book Riot. Her weblog While Reading and Walking has over 10,000 devoted followers over a number of social media shops, together with Instagram. She writes passionately about books in translation, continual sickness and bias in healthcare, queer books, twisty SFF, and magical realism and folklore. She was one of a choose few bookstagrammers named to NewCity’s Chicago Lit50 in 2022. She is an avid traveler, a passionate fan of ladies’s basketball and soccer, and a lifelong learner. Twitter: @reading_while
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By day, Leah Rachel von Essen is the editor-in-chief of Chicago Booth Magazine at the University of Chicago. By night time, she evaluations genre-bending fiction for Booklist, and writes usually as a senior contributor at Book Riot. Her weblog While Reading and Walking has over 10,000 devoted followers over a number of social media shops, together with Instagram. She writes passionately about books in translation, continual sickness and bias in healthcare, queer books, twisty SFF, and magical realism and folklore. She was one of a choose few bookstagrammers named to NewCity’s Chicago Lit50 in 2022. She is an avid traveler, a passionate fan of ladies’s basketball and soccer, and a lifelong learner. Twitter: @reading_while
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By day, Leah Rachel von Essen is the editor-in-chief of Chicago Booth Magazine at the University of Chicago. By night time, she evaluations genre-bending fiction for Booklist, and writes usually as a senior contributor at Book Riot. Her weblog While Reading and Walking has over 10,000 devoted followers over a number of social media shops, together with Instagram. She writes passionately about books in translation, continual sickness and bias in healthcare, queer books, twisty SFF, and magical realism and folklore. She was one of a choose few bookstagrammers named to NewCity’s Chicago Lit50 in 2022. She is an avid traveler, a passionate fan of ladies’s basketball and soccer, and a lifelong learner. Twitter: @reading_while
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By day, Leah Rachel von Essen is the editor-in-chief of Chicago Booth Magazine at the University of Chicago. By night time, she evaluations genre-bending fiction for Booklist, and writes usually as a senior contributor at Book Riot. Her weblog While Reading and Walking has over 10,000 devoted followers over a number of social media shops, together with Instagram. She writes passionately about books in translation, continual sickness and bias in healthcare, queer books, twisty SFF, and magical realism and folklore. She was one of a choose few bookstagrammers named to NewCity’s Chicago Lit50 in 2022. She is an avid traveler, a passionate fan of ladies’s basketball and soccer, and a lifelong learner. Twitter: @reading_while
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By day, Leah Rachel von Essen is the editor-in-chief of Chicago Booth Magazine at the University of Chicago. By night time, she evaluations genre-bending fiction for Booklist, and writes usually as a senior contributor at Book Riot. Her weblog While Reading and Walking has over 10,000 devoted followers over a number of social media shops, together with Instagram. She writes passionately about books in translation, continual sickness and bias in healthcare, queer books, twisty SFF, and magical realism and folklore. She was one of a choose few bookstagrammers named to NewCity’s Chicago Lit50 in 2022. She is an avid traveler, a passionate fan of ladies’s basketball and soccer, and a lifelong learner. Twitter: @reading_while
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By day, Leah Rachel von Essen is the editor-in-chief of Chicago Booth Magazine at the University of Chicago. By night time, she evaluations genre-bending fiction for Booklist, and writes usually as a senior contributor at Book Riot. Her weblog While Reading and Walking has over 10,000 devoted followers over a number of social media shops, together with Instagram. She writes passionately about books in translation, continual sickness and bias in healthcare, queer books, twisty SFF, and magical realism and folklore. She was one of a choose few bookstagrammers named to NewCity’s Chicago Lit50 in 2022. She is an avid traveler, a passionate fan of ladies’s basketball and soccer, and a lifelong learner. Twitter: @reading_while
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By day, Leah Rachel von Essen is the editor-in-chief of Chicago Booth Magazine at the University of Chicago. By night time, she evaluations genre-bending fiction for Booklist, and writes usually as a senior contributor at Book Riot. Her weblog While Reading and Walking has over 10,000 devoted followers over a number of social media shops, together with Instagram. She writes passionately about books in translation, continual sickness and bias in healthcare, queer books, twisty SFF, and magical realism and folklore. She was one of a choose few bookstagrammers named to NewCity’s Chicago Lit50 in 2022. She is an avid traveler, a passionate fan of ladies’s basketball and soccer, and a lifelong learner. Twitter: @reading_while
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By day, Leah Rachel von Essen is the editor-in-chief of Chicago Booth Magazine at the University of Chicago. By night time, she evaluations genre-bending fiction for Booklist, and writes usually as a senior contributor at Book Riot. Her weblog While Reading and Walking has over 10,000 devoted followers over a number of social media shops, together with Instagram. She writes passionately about books in translation, continual sickness and bias in healthcare, queer books, twisty SFF, and magical realism and folklore. She was one of a choose few bookstagrammers named to NewCity’s Chicago Lit50 in 2022. She is an avid traveler, a passionate fan of ladies’s basketball and soccer, and a lifelong learner. Twitter: @reading_while
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By day, Leah Rachel von Essen is the editor-in-chief of Chicago Booth Magazine at the University of Chicago. By night time, she evaluations genre-bending fiction for Booklist, and writes usually as a senior contributor at Book Riot. Her weblog While Reading and Walking has over 10,000 devoted followers over a number of social media shops, together with Instagram. She writes passionately about books in translation, continual sickness and bias in healthcare, queer books, twisty SFF, and magical realism and folklore. She was one of a choose few bookstagrammers named to NewCity’s Chicago Lit50 in 2022. She is an avid traveler, a passionate fan of ladies’s basketball and soccer, and a lifelong learner. Twitter: @reading_while
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By day, Leah Rachel von Essen is the editor-in-chief of Chicago Booth Magazine at the University of Chicago. By night time, she evaluations genre-bending fiction for Booklist, and writes usually as a senior contributor at Book Riot. Her weblog While Reading and Walking has over 10,000 devoted followers over a number of social media shops, together with Instagram. She writes passionately about books in translation, continual sickness and bias in healthcare, queer books, twisty SFF, and magical realism and folklore. She was one of a choose few bookstagrammers named to NewCity’s Chicago Lit50 in 2022. She is an avid traveler, a passionate fan of ladies’s basketball and soccer, and a lifelong learner. Twitter: @reading_while
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By day, Leah Rachel von Essen is the editor-in-chief of Chicago Booth Magazine at the University of Chicago. By night time, she evaluations genre-bending fiction for Booklist, and writes usually as a senior contributor at Book Riot. Her weblog While Reading and Walking has over 10,000 devoted followers over a number of social media shops, together with Instagram. She writes passionately about books in translation, continual sickness and bias in healthcare, queer books, twisty SFF, and magical realism and folklore. She was one of a choose few bookstagrammers named to NewCity’s Chicago Lit50 in 2022. She is an avid traveler, a passionate fan of ladies’s basketball and soccer, and a lifelong learner. Twitter: @reading_while
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By day, Leah Rachel von Essen is the editor-in-chief of Chicago Booth Magazine at the University of Chicago. By night time, she evaluations genre-bending fiction for Booklist, and writes usually as a senior contributor at Book Riot. Her weblog While Reading and Walking has over 10,000 devoted followers over a number of social media shops, together with Instagram. She writes passionately about books in translation, continual sickness and bias in healthcare, queer books, twisty SFF, and magical realism and folklore. She was one of a choose few bookstagrammers named to NewCity’s Chicago Lit50 in 2022. She is an avid traveler, a passionate fan of ladies’s basketball and soccer, and a lifelong learner. Twitter: @reading_while
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By day, Leah Rachel von Essen is the editor-in-chief of Chicago Booth Magazine at the University of Chicago. By night time, she evaluations genre-bending fiction for Booklist, and writes usually as a senior contributor at Book Riot. Her weblog While Reading and Walking has over 10,000 devoted followers over a number of social media shops, together with Instagram. She writes passionately about books in translation, continual sickness and bias in healthcare, queer books, twisty SFF, and magical realism and folklore. She was one of a choose few bookstagrammers named to NewCity’s Chicago Lit50 in 2022. She is an avid traveler, a passionate fan of ladies’s basketball and soccer, and a lifelong learner. Twitter: @reading_while
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By day, Leah Rachel von Essen is the editor-in-chief of Chicago Booth Magazine at the University of Chicago. By night time, she evaluations genre-bending fiction for Booklist, and writes usually as a senior contributor at Book Riot. Her weblog While Reading and Walking has over 10,000 devoted followers over a number of social media shops, together with Instagram. She writes passionately about books in translation, continual sickness and bias in healthcare, queer books, twisty SFF, and magical realism and folklore. She was one of a choose few bookstagrammers named to NewCity’s Chicago Lit50 in 2022. She is an avid traveler, a passionate fan of ladies’s basketball and soccer, and a lifelong learner. Twitter: @reading_while
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By day, Leah Rachel von Essen is the editor-in-chief of Chicago Booth Magazine at the University of Chicago. By night time, she evaluations genre-bending fiction for Booklist, and writes usually as a senior contributor at Book Riot. Her weblog While Reading and Walking has over 10,000 devoted followers over a number of social media shops, together with Instagram. She writes passionately about books in translation, continual sickness and bias in healthcare, queer books, twisty SFF, and magical realism and folklore. She was one of a choose few bookstagrammers named to NewCity’s Chicago Lit50 in 2022. She is an avid traveler, a passionate fan of ladies’s basketball and soccer, and a lifelong learner. Twitter: @reading_while
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By day, Leah Rachel von Essen is the editor-in-chief of Chicago Booth Magazine at the University of Chicago. By night time, she evaluations genre-bending fiction for Booklist, and writes usually as a senior contributor at Book Riot. Her weblog While Reading and Walking has over 10,000 devoted followers over a number of social media shops, together with Instagram. She writes passionately about books in translation, continual sickness and bias in healthcare, queer books, twisty SFF, and magical realism and folklore. She was one of a choose few bookstagrammers named to NewCity’s Chicago Lit50 in 2022. She is an avid traveler, a passionate fan of ladies’s basketball and soccer, and a lifelong learner. Twitter: @reading_while
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By day, Leah Rachel von Essen is the editor-in-chief of Chicago Booth Magazine at the University of Chicago. By night time, she evaluations genre-bending fiction for Booklist, and writes usually as a senior contributor at Book Riot. Her weblog While Reading and Walking has over 10,000 devoted followers over a number of social media shops, together with Instagram. She writes passionately about books in translation, continual sickness and bias in healthcare, queer books, twisty SFF, and magical realism and folklore. She was one of a choose few bookstagrammers named to NewCity’s Chicago Lit50 in 2022. She is an avid traveler, a passionate fan of ladies’s basketball and soccer, and a lifelong learner. Twitter: @reading_while
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By day, Leah Rachel von Essen is the editor-in-chief of Chicago Booth Magazine at the University of Chicago. By night time, she evaluations genre-bending fiction for Booklist, and writes usually as a senior contributor at Book Riot. Her weblog While Reading and Walking has over 10,000 devoted followers over a number of social media shops, together with Instagram. She writes passionately about books in translation, continual sickness and bias in healthcare, queer books, twisty SFF, and magical realism and folklore. She was one of a choose few bookstagrammers named to NewCity’s Chicago Lit50 in 2022. She is an avid traveler, a passionate fan of ladies’s basketball and soccer, and a lifelong learner. Twitter: @reading_while
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By day, Leah Rachel von Essen is the editor-in-chief of Chicago Booth Magazine at the University of Chicago. By night time, she evaluations genre-bending fiction for Booklist, and writes usually as a senior contributor at Book Riot. Her weblog While Reading and Walking has over 10,000 devoted followers over a number of social media shops, together with Instagram. She writes passionately about books in translation, continual sickness and bias in healthcare, queer books, twisty SFF, and magical realism and folklore. She was one of a choose few bookstagrammers named to NewCity’s Chicago Lit50 in 2022. She is an avid traveler, a passionate fan of ladies’s basketball and soccer, and a lifelong learner. Twitter: @reading_while
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By day, Leah Rachel von Essen is the editor-in-chief of Chicago Booth Magazine at the University of Chicago. By night time, she evaluations genre-bending fiction for Booklist, and writes usually as a senior contributor at Book Riot. Her weblog While Reading and Walking has over 10,000 devoted followers over a number of social media shops, together with Instagram. She writes passionately about books in translation, continual sickness and bias in healthcare, queer books, twisty SFF, and magical realism and folklore. She was one of a choose few bookstagrammers named to NewCity’s Chicago Lit50 in 2022. She is an avid traveler, a passionate fan of ladies’s basketball and soccer, and a lifelong learner. Twitter: @reading_while
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By day, Leah Rachel von Essen is the editor-in-chief of Chicago Booth Magazine at the University of Chicago. By night time, she evaluations genre-bending fiction for Booklist, and writes usually as a senior contributor at Book Riot. Her weblog While Reading and Walking has over 10,000 devoted followers over a number of social media shops, together with Instagram. She writes passionately about books in translation, continual sickness and bias in healthcare, queer books, twisty SFF, and magical realism and folklore. She was one of a choose few bookstagrammers named to NewCity’s Chicago Lit50 in 2022. She is an avid traveler, a passionate fan of ladies’s basketball and soccer, and a lifelong learner. Twitter: @reading_while
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By day, Leah Rachel von Essen is the editor-in-chief of Chicago Booth Magazine at the University of Chicago. By night time, she evaluations genre-bending fiction for Booklist, and writes usually as a senior contributor at Book Riot. Her weblog While Reading and Walking has over 10,000 devoted followers over a number of social media shops, together with Instagram. She writes passionately about books in translation, continual sickness and bias in healthcare, queer books, twisty SFF, and magical realism and folklore. She was one of a choose few bookstagrammers named to NewCity’s Chicago Lit50 in 2022. She is an avid traveler, a passionate fan of ladies’s basketball and soccer, and a lifelong learner. Twitter: @reading_while
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By day, Leah Rachel von Essen is the editor-in-chief of Chicago Booth Magazine at the University of Chicago. By night time, she evaluations genre-bending fiction for Booklist, and writes usually as a senior contributor at Book Riot. Her weblog While Reading and Walking has over 10,000 devoted followers over a number of social media shops, together with Instagram. She writes passionately about books in translation, continual sickness and bias in healthcare, queer books, twisty SFF, and magical realism and folklore. She was one of a choose few bookstagrammers named to NewCity’s Chicago Lit50 in 2022. She is an avid traveler, a passionate fan of ladies’s basketball and soccer, and a lifelong learner. Twitter: @reading_while
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By day, Leah Rachel von Essen is the editor-in-chief of Chicago Booth Magazine at the University of Chicago. By night time, she evaluations genre-bending fiction for Booklist, and writes usually as a senior contributor at Book Riot. Her weblog While Reading and Walking has over 10,000 devoted followers over a number of social media shops, together with Instagram. She writes passionately about books in translation, continual sickness and bias in healthcare, queer books, twisty SFF, and magical realism and folklore. She was one of a choose few bookstagrammers named to NewCity’s Chicago Lit50 in 2022. She is an avid traveler, a passionate fan of ladies’s basketball and soccer, and a lifelong learner. Twitter: @reading_while
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By day, Leah Rachel von Essen is the editor-in-chief of Chicago Booth Magazine at the University of Chicago. By night time, she evaluations genre-bending fiction for Booklist, and writes usually as a senior contributor at Book Riot. Her weblog While Reading and Walking has over 10,000 devoted followers over a number of social media shops, together with Instagram. She writes passionately about books in translation, continual sickness and bias in healthcare, queer books, twisty SFF, and magical realism and folklore. She was one of a choose few bookstagrammers named to NewCity’s Chicago Lit50 in 2022. She is an avid traveler, a passionate fan of ladies’s basketball and soccer, and a lifelong learner. Twitter: @reading_while
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By day, Leah Rachel von Essen is the editor-in-chief of Chicago Booth Magazine at the University of Chicago. By night time, she evaluations genre-bending fiction for Booklist, and writes usually as a senior contributor at Book Riot. Her weblog While Reading and Walking has over 10,000 devoted followers over a number of social media shops, together with Instagram. She writes passionately about books in translation, continual sickness and bias in healthcare, queer books, twisty SFF, and magical realism and folklore. She was one of a choose few bookstagrammers named to NewCity’s Chicago Lit50 in 2022. She is an avid traveler, a passionate fan of ladies’s basketball and soccer, and a lifelong learner. Twitter: @reading_while
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By day, Leah Rachel von Essen is the editor-in-chief of Chicago Booth Magazine at the University of Chicago. By night time, she evaluations genre-bending fiction for Booklist, and writes usually as a senior contributor at Book Riot. Her weblog While Reading and Walking has over 10,000 devoted followers over a number of social media shops, together with Instagram. She writes passionately about books in translation, continual sickness and bias in healthcare, queer books, twisty SFF, and magical realism and folklore. She was one of a choose few bookstagrammers named to NewCity’s Chicago Lit50 in 2022. She is an avid traveler, a passionate fan of ladies’s basketball and soccer, and a lifelong learner. Twitter: @reading_while
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By day, Leah Rachel von Essen is the editor-in-chief of Chicago Booth Magazine at the University of Chicago. By night time, she evaluations genre-bending fiction for Booklist, and writes usually as a senior contributor at Book Riot. Her weblog While Reading and Walking has over 10,000 devoted followers over a number of social media shops, together with Instagram. She writes passionately about books in translation, continual sickness and bias in healthcare, queer books, twisty SFF, and magical realism and folklore. She was one of a choose few bookstagrammers named to NewCity’s Chicago Lit50 in 2022. She is an avid traveler, a passionate fan of ladies’s basketball and soccer, and a lifelong learner. Twitter: @reading_while
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By day, Leah Rachel von Essen is the editor-in-chief of Chicago Booth Magazine at the University of Chicago. By night time, she evaluations genre-bending fiction for Booklist, and writes usually as a senior contributor at Book Riot. Her weblog While Reading and Walking has over 10,000 devoted followers over a number of social media shops, together with Instagram. She writes passionately about books in translation, continual sickness and bias in healthcare, queer books, twisty SFF, and magical realism and folklore. She was one of a choose few bookstagrammers named to NewCity’s Chicago Lit50 in 2022. She is an avid traveler, a passionate fan of ladies’s basketball and soccer, and a lifelong learner. Twitter: @reading_while
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By day, Leah Rachel von Essen is the editor-in-chief of Chicago Booth Magazine at the University of Chicago. By night time, she evaluations genre-bending fiction for Booklist, and writes usually as a senior contributor at Book Riot. Her weblog While Reading and Walking has over 10,000 devoted followers over a number of social media shops, together with Instagram. She writes passionately about books in translation, continual sickness and bias in healthcare, queer books, twisty SFF, and magical realism and folklore. She was one of a choose few bookstagrammers named to NewCity’s Chicago Lit50 in 2022. She is an avid traveler, a passionate fan of ladies’s basketball and soccer, and a lifelong learner. Twitter: @reading_while
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By day, Leah Rachel von Essen is the editor-in-chief of Chicago Booth Magazine at the University of Chicago. By night time, she evaluations genre-bending fiction for Booklist, and writes usually as a senior contributor at Book Riot. Her weblog While Reading and Walking has over 10,000 devoted followers over a number of social media shops, together with Instagram. She writes passionately about books in translation, continual sickness and bias in healthcare, queer books, twisty SFF, and magical realism and folklore. She was one of a choose few bookstagrammers named to NewCity’s Chicago Lit50 in 2022. She is an avid traveler, a passionate fan of ladies’s basketball and soccer, and a lifelong learner. Twitter: @reading_while
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By day, Leah Rachel von Essen is the editor-in-chief of Chicago Booth Magazine at the University of Chicago. By night time, she evaluations genre-bending fiction for Booklist, and writes usually as a senior contributor at Book Riot. Her weblog While Reading and Walking has over 10,000 devoted followers over a number of social media shops, together with Instagram. She writes passionately about books in translation, continual sickness and bias in healthcare, queer books, twisty SFF, and magical realism and folklore. She was one of a choose few bookstagrammers named to NewCity’s Chicago Lit50 in 2022. She is an avid traveler, a passionate fan of ladies’s basketball and soccer, and a lifelong learner. Twitter: @reading_while
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By day, Leah Rachel von Essen is the editor-in-chief of Chicago Booth Magazine at the University of Chicago. By night time, she evaluations genre-bending fiction for Booklist, and writes usually as a senior contributor at Book Riot. Her weblog While Reading and Walking has over 10,000 devoted followers over a number of social media shops, together with Instagram. She writes passionately about books in translation, continual sickness and bias in healthcare, queer books, twisty SFF, and magical realism and folklore. She was one of a choose few bookstagrammers named to NewCity’s Chicago Lit50 in 2022. She is an avid traveler, a passionate fan of ladies’s basketball and soccer, and a lifelong learner. Twitter: @reading_while
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By day, Leah Rachel von Essen is the editor-in-chief of Chicago Booth Magazine at the University of Chicago. By night time, she evaluations genre-bending fiction for Booklist, and writes usually as a senior contributor at Book Riot. Her weblog While Reading and Walking has over 10,000 devoted followers over a number of social media shops, together with Instagram. She writes passionately about books in translation, continual sickness and bias in healthcare, queer books, twisty SFF, and magical realism and folklore. She was one of a choose few bookstagrammers named to NewCity’s Chicago Lit50 in 2022. She is an avid traveler, a passionate fan of ladies’s basketball and soccer, and a lifelong learner. Twitter: @reading_while
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In 1889, a younger feminine journalist from Ohio with short-cut hair and a cigarette normally shut at hand grew to become the sixth metropolis librarian for Los Angeles. She had subsequent to no expertise. Her publicity to the library world was restricted to overlaying an American Library Association (ALA) convention, and you’ll have thought that will have harm her possibilities in the interview with the library board.
But she informed them she may rent individuals for the technical stuff. What she had was management and a imaginative and prescient. They had been so bought on it that she acquired the job.
Tessa Kelso would solely be Los Angeles metropolis librarian for six years, however the modifications she made had been gigantic. Even eight months into her tenure, the board of governors of the library had been sending reward to Kelso and her co-worker and right-hand-woman Adelaide Hasse. Under their tenure, the Los Angeles Public Library (LAPL) assortment grew seven instances larger and circulation went from 12,000 to 330,000. The modifications LAPL made underneath Kelso would entice nationwide consideration and had been at the forefront of what libraries would transfer in direction of in the future.
Kelso is one of these vivid, feminist histories that I had by no means learn and want I’d recognized. So I did the analysis and the studying in order that you can also know why she’s an icon that each one readers and librarians ought to be pleased about.
Opening the Libraries to the Public
Kelso wished the library to be accessible to the public in each manner she may. One early change was to undertake the Dewey Decimal System in an effort to cease hiding books behind the difficult catalog techniques of the previous and provides the public the functionality to trace down books on their very own aspect of the cabinets.
Kelso abolished membership charges and argued for stacks to be open and out there to the public, each concepts that had been actually radical at the time.
At the ALA convention in 1893, when a debate about who ought to be capable to use reference books got here up, she stated, “I would rather that such a man should steal the dictionary outright than that he should fail to get the service he requires from the library.” She was a real pioneer in phrases of how she thought of libraries and what they need to be and do for society.
Kelso additionally envisioned a library as a cultural and informational middle, a radical proposition that foresaw the manner that we see the function of public libraries in the present day. She established an area historical past assortment, an artwork division, and a music assortment.
Kelso created a system of supply stations to maintain up with rising demand, expanded weekend hours, and made newspapers and magazines out there for readers to take a look at and produce house with them — which is an element of what made LAPL each the largest in per capita circulation in the nation and the second most cost-effective in price. She wished the library to be a spot of the arts, of unbiased info and information, and of programming for youngsters — together with lively help for and gear for athletic endeavors, to maintain kids lively.
She additionally established a scientific coaching system for library workers that will be the first of its sort.
Gender Nonsense
In phrases of gender roles, she was vocal and daring. Just in her look and the manner she carried herself, Kelso was a strolling riot for the time. She smoked brazenly. Her hair was lower brief, and she or he by no means wore a hat. She was loud and by no means hesitated to share her opinion — loudly.
She fought for girls’s rights in native golf equipment and civic associations, and fought in opposition to a proposed ALA “women’s section” that will divide books right into a separate part meant solely for girls. Part of the motive she fought in opposition to separate grownup and youngsters’s sections was as a result of she didn’t need to encourage the then-common challenge of ladies librarians being shunted into kids’s sections, “feminizing” the profession path by shoving them right into a “mothering” function. She was decided that girls ought to have equal rights.
While it’s unclear and can’t be confirmed what her identification might have been in in the present day’s terminology, Kelso and Hasse had an egalitarian working and private relationship, and shared a life at house collectively. Hasse, who was additionally a champion ladies’s bicycle rider in L.A., was extra on the aspect of organizing the library. Kelso and Hasse moved in collectively in 1892, traveled collectively, and would later transfer to New York collectively.
This is a crucial half of the historical past not solely to spotlight Kelso’s world and life, but additionally as a result of as the LAPL skilled success with its new, progressive motion, extra consideration got here with it, from the press and from conservatives in authorities. As the individual in cost of these modifications, Kelso’s life and determine as a daring, unbiased, non-conformist lady would additionally come underneath scrutiny.
A Banned Book and Free Speech Controversy
After the Depression of 1893, it was tough to keep up the library’s funds. Kelso had been preapproved to go to Chicago for the ALA convention, the World Congress of Librarians convention, and the World’s Fair, however when she utilized for reimbursement of her $200 (about $6,750 in the present day), the City Auditor refused.
When she made a justifiable stink about the cash owed, the native press leapt on the story, and a few newspapers lampooned the metropolis authorities for spending a lot cash on pointless issues and frivolous library expenditures. The library grew to become a goal, and conservatives in the authorities took discover.
At the similar second, somebody observed that a number of scandalous French books — notably Le Cadet by Jean Richepin — had been added to the LAPL assortment. The books had been added practically a 12 months earlier, however the Los Angeles Examiner and non secular figures started to query the morals of the library and its daring feminine chief. (Kelso argued that not solely was the choice indirectly her personal, but additionally she didn’t learn French, and so was unable to resolve whether or not or not the e book must be censored.)
Then one Sunday, Reverend J.W. Campbell led a prayer at the First Methodist Episcopal Church: “Oh lord vouchsafe thy saving grace to the librarian of the Los Angeles City Library and cleanse her of all sin and make her a woman worthy of her office.”
This drew the consideration of many spiritual figures who believed that sure scandalous books must be burned, and it made an absolute storm in the press. Kelso determined she was now not enjoying round. She sued Campbell for $5,000 in damages (practically $169,000 in the present day) for slander, arguing that her ethical character was a key qualification for being metropolis librarian, making his questioning of her morality a problem of defamation.
Campbell argued that prayer was exempt from this kind of litigation as a result of “none should object to being prayed for.” The case began receiving nationwide consideration as a First Amendment query — on one aspect, a proposal to ban a e book from the library’s assortment, and on the different, the argument that prayer was privileged speech and couldn’t be half of litigation.
Despite scorching feelings and passionate diatribes, Kelso stayed calm all through the course of. In March 1895, Kelso formally gained out when the church settled and paid her authorized charges. The argument that “prayer” was privileged speech was formally rejected by the court docket.
Still, the press storm had taken its toll. After the election of 1894, a brand new Republican mayor was in energy, and he had examine the spending of the library and Kelso’s daring concepts. He ousted many individuals who had supported the library underneath Kelso, and the new Library Board put her and Hasse on probation. When they turned of their resignations in protest, the board requested them to rethink and lifted the probation — solely to try to cut back their salaries a number of months later. This time, Kelso and Hasse resigned for good.
After resigning, Kelso had nothing lined up. She adopted Hasse, who snapped up new employment with the New York Public Library, to New York City. Kelso labored for Scribner’s Publishing and later in the library division of Baker and Taylor.
Taking Down Dewey
Melvil Dewey might have created the Dewey Decimal System, based the American Library Association, and advocated for girls to be permitted into the librarian vocation…however he was something however progressive. Among different issues, Dewey had a wild historical past of sexual harassment. He harassed his assistants Florence Woodworth and May Seymour for years, and harassed many different ladies — together with Hasse herself, who he lured as much as Albany with guarantees of speaking a few large new undertaking she was engaged on.
Hasse would by no means communicate of it publicly, nevertheless it feels protected to say that Kelso knew of his historical past, which appeared to have been an open secret. She was nonetheless lively in the ALA, and nonetheless shut with Hasse, so she was witness to a lot of the affect of his unhealthy habits. In 1905, Dewey went on a cruise to Alaska that included a giant group from the ALA, and no fewer than 4 ladies got here ahead accusing him of harassment afterward. A motion rose to censure Dewey at the 1906 ALA convention, and it was profitable. Dewey, the group’s founder and first member, was ousted and shut out from the group for the relaxation of his life.
Unfortunately, as everyone knows, canceling isn’t all the time sufficient. Dewey was nonetheless doing tremendous with the New York Library Association, and in 1924, he supplied to host their annual Library Week at his own residence.
Kelso wasn’t having it. She went straight to the NYLA board and informed them that if there wasn’t an investigation, she would take the story of his harassment to the press. In a protracted listening to, they uncovered not solely the already open secret of his harassment of ladies who labored for him or who had been simply in the trade but additionally that he had harassed his personal daughter-in-law for years. The NYLA, cowed by the thought of the unhealthy publicity they might face, declined Dewey’s supply, and did their greatest to chop ties altogether.
About the choice, Dewey wrote (all spelling errors his personal): “It is really pathetic when an unbalanst smoking drinking caracter can stampede a lot of sensible people.”
Legacy
Kelso returned to California not lengthy after and handed away on August 13, 1933, in Santa Barbara.
Memorials for her abound in the librarian world. After her dying, the Santa Barbara Public Library created a memorial assortment of books that belonged to her. The on-line useful resource that offers the public entry to uncommon and historic collections from Los Angeles Public Library is called TESSA, after her. In 2017, she was named to the California Library Hall of Fame as “an early director of the Los Angeles Public Library and one of the profession’s most progressive and influential pioneers.”
Kelso took on the complete library world along with her pioneering concepts about what public libraries must be, and was keen to do no matter she wanted to do to maintain libraries and the librarian career equal and accessible for all. She’s a real librarian pioneer, and I’m glad to now know her story.
Sources: “Tessa Kelso: Library Hall of Famer” by James Sherman (LAPL Blog, 2019) and “Tessa Kelso: Sinful City Librarian” by James Sherman (LAPL Blog, 2014); “Our Namesake: Tessa Kelso”; “Tessa Kelso: Unfinished Hero of Library Herstory” by Evelyn Geller (American Library Association, accessed through JStor); and “Tessa L. Kelso: A “New Woman” of Progressive Era Los Angeles” by Diane Christine Kavadas (accessed through ProQuest).
For extra on librarian historical past, dive into my story about the Tougaloo Nine and their 1961 read-in that helped in the battle to desegregate public libraries, or learn Anna Gooding-Call’s breakdown of the classism, sexual misconduct, and racism of Melvil Dewey.
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