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Ann Frenkel, Assistant University
Librarian for Public Services, talks with Scott Edmiston, Director
of the Office of
the Arts.
What's the last book you read?
What is your favorite book?
Tender is the
Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald. I’m highly
susceptible to stories of lost innocence and romantic
disillusionment.
Who is your favorite fictional character?
It’s a tie
between Hamlet and Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named
Desire. I can’t decide what to be or not, and have to
depend on the kindness of strangers.
What's your ideal place for reading?
What is the most creative way you have used the library?
A library gave me my creative identity. I
made my theatre debut in a library play at the age of eight
– and I’ve been in the arts ever since.
Do you have any memorable moments in a library?
Too many to name. I’ve spent my life
in libraries – they feel like home to me. My older brother
and sister were librarians, so I spent a lot of time there as a
child. The library seemed to me a place of wonder, filled with
adventure. There is something I love about the smell and feel of
books, and the mystery of the quest that each visit to a library
offers.
Where do you go to get away from it all?
Provincetown: Home to two of
my great literary heroes, Eugene
O’Neill and Tennessee Williams. I can hear their
spirits in the sound of the waves.
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