Street Road
  • Home
  • Visit
  • CURRENT
    • Becoming Succession
    • HERE: a place-based polar image bridge
    • Near Dwellers
    • Near Dwellers as Roadkill
    • Near Dwellers as Friends
    • Near Dwellers as Indwellers
    • Dennis Haggerty – Various Small Envelopes
  • Multi-year enquiries, ongoing
    • Near Dwellers
      • 1: Near Dwellers and the Sharing of Breath, SLQS
      • 2: Near Dwellers as Legal Beings, Fawn Daphne Plessner and Susanna Kamon
      • 3: Near Dwellers as Creative Collaborators, Julie Andreyev and Ruth K. Burke
      • 4: Near Dwellers as Urbanites, Jesse Garbe and Doug LaFortune
      • 5: Near Dwellers as Roadkill, Lou Florence
      • 6. Near Dwellers as Friends
      • 7. Near Dwellers as Indwellers
    • Clouded Title
      • Clouded Title 2018
      • Clouded Title 2019
      • Clouded Title 2020/21 - Conversations
    • A(mobile)DRIFT
    • Summer Library
      • Summer Library, Librarian 12 – Robert Good
      • Summer Library, Librarian 11 – Christianna Potter Hannum
      • Summer Library, Librarian 10 – Christopher Murray
      • Summer Library, Librarian 9 – Maya Wasileski
      • Summer Library, Librarian 8 – Logan Cryer
      • Summer Library, Librarian 7 – Rhonda Ike
      • Summer Library 2021 closing event - The Anti-Anthropocene Bonfire Bookburning
      • Summer Library, Librarian 6 – Georgie Devereux
      • Summer Library, Librarian 5 – Mary Tasillo
      • Summer Library, Librarian 4 – Maria Möller
      • Summer Library, Librarian 3 – Rachel Eng
      • Summer Library, Librarian 2 – Lou Florence
      • Summer Library, Librarian 1 – Angella Meanix
  • Outdoor works, ongoing
    • Locust Leap
    • Domestic Rewilding - Ruth K. Burke
    • Supervene Forest
  • past
    • Multi-year
      • The Dust: American Matter
      • Heterotopia West, Adrian Barron
      • The Post Anthropocene Compost
      • Reigning Heads, Luyi Wang
      • Homma Meridian, by Kaori Homma
      • Folly by Anthony, Dennis, and Nicholas Santella
      • Street Road Rocks
      • Street Road Reading Group
      • Kaori Homma: Meridian Stone
      • unTOLLed Stories, Emily Artinian & Felise Luchansky
        • unTOLLed Stories
        • unTOLLed stories BLOG
      • Bees - Stella Lou Farm
    • 2023
      • May the Neotropical Arise — Zulu Padilla
    • 2022
      • Un-Boxing
      • Twentysix Wawa Stores
      • Winter Library
      • The Book of Ashes
    • 2021
      • Composting Hegel
      • Street Road Rocks at 10&41
      • Chain mail for bad communicators
      • BABE 2021
    • 2020
      • Castor
      • Dutchirican
    • 2019
      • Roots of Resistance
      • Seven Million Acres: Pride of place
      • LFL Exhibitions: Libbie Sofer, Transported
      • Emily Manko | Now, Then, When
      • Julia Hardman: if they're behind you they go too fast; if they're in front of you they go too slow
      • Summer 2019 Conversations
    • 2018
      • Walking Forward – Looking Back: Carol Maurer
    • 2017
      • Ceramic Sanctuary
      • Homestead: a permaculture project, StellaLou Farm (7/6 to 9/16/2017)
      • Shared Ground: Dennis Santella, Nicholas Santella and Anthony Santella, May-June 2017
      • back, forth: Street Road at 5 years 11/2016-4/2017
        • Anchor 1: Par Exemple, Ebenthal
        • Anchor 2: Homma Meridian
        • Anchor 3: The road out of town, McMurdo Sound
        • Anchor 4: Play Under’ from ‘Underneath
        • Anchor 5: Leni Lenape arrowhead collection
        • Anchor 6 : Open Wall
        • Anchor 7: Supervene Forest
        • Anchor 8: Chalfant
        • Anchor 9: Soviet Apartment Bloc, Tblisi, Georgia
        • Anchor 10 : Enskyment
      • #J20 (1/20/2017)
    • 2016
      • 24 Hour Liminal: Maria Möller (August-October 2016)
      • 7000 Acres: a residents' history of Londonderry Township (May 21-July 15, 2016)
      • The Tent of Casually Observed Phenologies (July 16, 2016)
      • Julia Dooley and Dr. Zoe Courville sci-art student project (4/22-23/16)
      • Maxim D. Shrayer and Christianna Hannum Miller (4/9/2016)
      • Fadi Sultagi's The Sanctuary of Bel, Palmyra (to 4/15/16)
      • Susan Marie Brundage and David A. Parker at Street Road and at The Christiana Motel (to 4/15/16)
      • Sasha Boyle
    • 2015
      • The Road Less Traveled, Danny Aldred
      • Sailing Stones (2015)
        • Julia Dooley: Images from the Bottom of the World and CryoZen Garden
        • José Luis Avila: hOMe
        • Kaori Homma: Meridian Stone
        • Egidija Ciricate: About Stones
        • L.A.N.D.
      • Crisis Farm: Seed to Table by Maryann Worrell and Doug Mott (2015)
      • Suburban Landscapes: Brian Richmond (2015)
    • 2014
      • Enskyment, by David A. Parker
      • Arterial Motives
        • Arterial Motives Exhibition
        • Arterial Motives Blog
      • Garage and Octorara Student Exhibition
      • Maxim D. Shrayer - Leaving Russia
    • 2013
      • Proposals of Belonging
      • Lost Highway 41 Revisited Blues (2013)
    • 2012
      • Compass (2012)
      • Parallax (2012)
    • 2011
      • The Lay of the Land (2011)
  • Street Road Press
  • Blogs
    • Blog: Winter 2016/17
    • Blog 2011-2016
    • T.S.W.H.
  • Little Free Library
    • Book Club
    • Little Free Library Blog
  • Home
  • Visit
  • CURRENT
    • Becoming Succession
    • HERE: a place-based polar image bridge
    • Near Dwellers
    • Near Dwellers as Roadkill
    • Near Dwellers as Friends
    • Near Dwellers as Indwellers
    • Dennis Haggerty – Various Small Envelopes
  • Multi-year enquiries, ongoing
    • Near Dwellers
      • 1: Near Dwellers and the Sharing of Breath, SLQS
      • 2: Near Dwellers as Legal Beings, Fawn Daphne Plessner and Susanna Kamon
      • 3: Near Dwellers as Creative Collaborators, Julie Andreyev and Ruth K. Burke
      • 4: Near Dwellers as Urbanites, Jesse Garbe and Doug LaFortune
      • 5: Near Dwellers as Roadkill, Lou Florence
      • 6. Near Dwellers as Friends
      • 7. Near Dwellers as Indwellers
    • Clouded Title
      • Clouded Title 2018
      • Clouded Title 2019
      • Clouded Title 2020/21 - Conversations
    • A(mobile)DRIFT
    • Summer Library
      • Summer Library, Librarian 12 – Robert Good
      • Summer Library, Librarian 11 – Christianna Potter Hannum
      • Summer Library, Librarian 10 – Christopher Murray
      • Summer Library, Librarian 9 – Maya Wasileski
      • Summer Library, Librarian 8 – Logan Cryer
      • Summer Library, Librarian 7 – Rhonda Ike
      • Summer Library 2021 closing event - The Anti-Anthropocene Bonfire Bookburning
      • Summer Library, Librarian 6 – Georgie Devereux
      • Summer Library, Librarian 5 – Mary Tasillo
      • Summer Library, Librarian 4 – Maria Möller
      • Summer Library, Librarian 3 – Rachel Eng
      • Summer Library, Librarian 2 – Lou Florence
      • Summer Library, Librarian 1 – Angella Meanix
  • Outdoor works, ongoing
    • Locust Leap
    • Domestic Rewilding - Ruth K. Burke
    • Supervene Forest
  • past
    • Multi-year
      • The Dust: American Matter
      • Heterotopia West, Adrian Barron
      • The Post Anthropocene Compost
      • Reigning Heads, Luyi Wang
      • Homma Meridian, by Kaori Homma
      • Folly by Anthony, Dennis, and Nicholas Santella
      • Street Road Rocks
      • Street Road Reading Group
      • Kaori Homma: Meridian Stone
      • unTOLLed Stories, Emily Artinian & Felise Luchansky
        • unTOLLed Stories
        • unTOLLed stories BLOG
      • Bees - Stella Lou Farm
    • 2023
      • May the Neotropical Arise — Zulu Padilla
    • 2022
      • Un-Boxing
      • Twentysix Wawa Stores
      • Winter Library
      • The Book of Ashes
    • 2021
      • Composting Hegel
      • Street Road Rocks at 10&41
      • Chain mail for bad communicators
      • BABE 2021
    • 2020
      • Castor
      • Dutchirican
    • 2019
      • Roots of Resistance
      • Seven Million Acres: Pride of place
      • LFL Exhibitions: Libbie Sofer, Transported
      • Emily Manko | Now, Then, When
      • Julia Hardman: if they're behind you they go too fast; if they're in front of you they go too slow
      • Summer 2019 Conversations
    • 2018
      • Walking Forward – Looking Back: Carol Maurer
    • 2017
      • Ceramic Sanctuary
      • Homestead: a permaculture project, StellaLou Farm (7/6 to 9/16/2017)
      • Shared Ground: Dennis Santella, Nicholas Santella and Anthony Santella, May-June 2017
      • back, forth: Street Road at 5 years 11/2016-4/2017
        • Anchor 1: Par Exemple, Ebenthal
        • Anchor 2: Homma Meridian
        • Anchor 3: The road out of town, McMurdo Sound
        • Anchor 4: Play Under’ from ‘Underneath
        • Anchor 5: Leni Lenape arrowhead collection
        • Anchor 6 : Open Wall
        • Anchor 7: Supervene Forest
        • Anchor 8: Chalfant
        • Anchor 9: Soviet Apartment Bloc, Tblisi, Georgia
        • Anchor 10 : Enskyment
      • #J20 (1/20/2017)
    • 2016
      • 24 Hour Liminal: Maria Möller (August-October 2016)
      • 7000 Acres: a residents' history of Londonderry Township (May 21-July 15, 2016)
      • The Tent of Casually Observed Phenologies (July 16, 2016)
      • Julia Dooley and Dr. Zoe Courville sci-art student project (4/22-23/16)
      • Maxim D. Shrayer and Christianna Hannum Miller (4/9/2016)
      • Fadi Sultagi's The Sanctuary of Bel, Palmyra (to 4/15/16)
      • Susan Marie Brundage and David A. Parker at Street Road and at The Christiana Motel (to 4/15/16)
      • Sasha Boyle
    • 2015
      • The Road Less Traveled, Danny Aldred
      • Sailing Stones (2015)
        • Julia Dooley: Images from the Bottom of the World and CryoZen Garden
        • José Luis Avila: hOMe
        • Kaori Homma: Meridian Stone
        • Egidija Ciricate: About Stones
        • L.A.N.D.
      • Crisis Farm: Seed to Table by Maryann Worrell and Doug Mott (2015)
      • Suburban Landscapes: Brian Richmond (2015)
    • 2014
      • Enskyment, by David A. Parker
      • Arterial Motives
        • Arterial Motives Exhibition
        • Arterial Motives Blog
      • Garage and Octorara Student Exhibition
      • Maxim D. Shrayer - Leaving Russia
    • 2013
      • Proposals of Belonging
      • Lost Highway 41 Revisited Blues (2013)
    • 2012
      • Compass (2012)
      • Parallax (2012)
    • 2011
      • The Lay of the Land (2011)
  • Street Road Press
  • Blogs
    • Blog: Winter 2016/17
    • Blog 2011-2016
    • T.S.W.H.
  • Little Free Library
    • Book Club
    • Little Free Library Blog
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Street Road
725 Street Road Cochranville, PA 19330 

The Little Free Library
1016B Gap Newport Pike 
Cochranville, PA 19330
part of the ongoing series 
Summer Library​
​

Librarian 12
Robert Good
October 28 - April 13, 2023
​www.robertgood.co.uk

Copies of Robert's zine, 100% Are Books, can be purchased from Street Road ($5+ shipping). Email us if you would like to order a copy.

Receptions: 
Saturday, October 28, 2023
Opening Reception

1-4 pm Eastern Standard Time
10am-1pm Pacific
6-9pm BST

Join Robert online via Zoom if you can't come in person, 1-2:30pm.
​Link here.
Meeting ID: 811 8414 1364


Saturday April 13, 2024 
Closing Reception 
1-4 pm Eastern Standard Time
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NOTE that this exhibition was installed at both of our sites: Street Road's main building, and at The Little Free Library 19330 There is a 5-10 minute drive between the two sites.

See full details about the Summer Library project, including other Librarians' work, here.

100% are books.

Do the donated books in the Little Free Library and Street Road Artists Space have their own story to tell?

For his virtual residency (the first long-distance residency in the Summer Library series) Robert Good has used a mixture of Python programming and creative thinking to try and analyze the Street Road library catalogues and build up a profile of the books that have been donated. Might the books themselves be able to tell us something about both the Street Road project and the community which has donated those books?
 
For example, which is the most ‘average book’ in the collection (and what does that even mean?). Can we find how many books of the books are happy? Which subjects are well-represented and which are missing? (Hint: the word ‘murder’ features highly in book descriptions.) Are there more male or female authors?
 
Some of these are very open-ended questions, and Robert saw early the need to be creative in his approach to answering them. From the catalogues themselves he had only basic book details (author, title, description etc) to work with, so source material was limited, but he also co-opted resources such as Wikipedia, Roget’s Thesaurus, Project Gutenberg and the python Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK) to help him.
 
Spoiler alert: Robert expects his answers are likely to fall short of true scientific rigour, but by sharing both his methodology (how might you begin to decide if a book is happy or not?) and his results he hopes his librarianship will generate conversations and discussion around the ideas of ‘what makes a collection?’ and ‘what gives a collection its own identity?’.

Robert Good is an artist based in Cambridge UK whose work explores the problems of knowledge and the limitations of language. He uses texts found both in books and online as source material to critique and contrast the systems and structures of analogue and digital landscapes, and he writes Python programming code to manipulate images and texts in order to consider our relationship to technology.

Good's work has been shown across the UK and in the US, Australia and Spain. It has been hosted online from India and the Netherlands. His alternative dictionary,
A New Dictionary of Art, comprises over 3,000 definitions of 'art' found online and has been described as 'both splendid and splendidly bonkers'.

Robert Good is also the host of the podcast
Something To Do With Art in which he talks to artists about what they do and why. ​Previously, Good was founder and director of Art Language Location (ALL), a collective working with over 150 artists at the intersection of art, text and place.

www.robertgood.co.uk

Some findings: notes from Robert

The Library catalogue was a surprisingly rich source of information, and I was able to make a number of observations about the collection - some serious, some less so. Here are a few of my favourites:

There are 1984 entries in the library catalogue. 100% are books.
I like the serendipity of the reference to George Orwell's novel, and the seeming banality of the outcome that everything in the library catalogue is a book. But are there no CDs, DVDs, ephemera and other items?

There are 5 Doctors, 1 Lady, 1 Lord, 1 Professor, 1 Saint and 1 Sir. There is 1 Anonymous.
This has made me want to find the book by Anonymous.

The oldest book in the library is apparently 'Peter Paul Rubens' by Samuel Edwards, published in 1197.
This is strange, as Peter Paul Rubens, the famous Flemish artist and diplomat, was not born until 1577.

Based on the average publication date of all the books, the library's star sign is Cancer.
This makes the library decisive, charming and self-conscious.

The most average book (according to Author Name, Book Title and Page Length) is 'A Wild Patience Has Taken Me This Far' by Adrienne Rich.
This result seems very appropriate: the book title accurately describes the many hours I spent writing Python code to create the report.

The book with the most number of pages is 'Benedictine Daily Prayer: A Short Breviary' by Maxwell Johnson with 2266 pages.
How many pages does a Long Breviary have?

Overall, this project made me think about our relationship to technology, and how number crunching can create unexpected results and new ways of looking at things - a complete contrast to the slow, tactile way in which we normally meander through a library, browsing the bookshelves and looking for our next book to read.

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Read Robert's full report below (see The Catalogue).

Some further findings... from the Street Road librarians

Once Robert had generated his data and forwarded it to us at Street Road, the task of searching for his findings began. Our library and its catalog are informal projects, and we subscribe to the 'jumble' system of shelving - no particular order whatsoever (we are all for serendipity in libraries).

This meant that when it came to looking for Robert's selections, so that they could be displayed for his iteration of the Summer Library, we had to proceed in a very analog, very human, puzzle-solving way. Which was sometimes frustrating, mostly a joy.

We ended up being fairly but not wholly successful in finding everything in Robert's list. For the duration of his exhibition, we will invite visitors to help us continue the search.

The Catalogue

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We can accommodate most times by appointment, given a little advance notice. 
Email us or phone to set up a visit.
And, stop by if you see a car outside!

HOURS — Street Road 
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February 15 – May 31, 2025
Fridays, 5-8pm
Saturdays, 11-3pm
and by appointment, in person or virtually. 

HOURS — Little Free Library 19330 (our 2nd site a few miles north)
Wednesdays 6-9pm
Thursdays 12-4pm
Fridays 10am-2pm
Saturdays 10am-2pm
and by appointment.
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NOTE: The LFL19330 will be closed on Saturday, May 24th (Memorial weekend).
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Our Little Free Library outdoor boxes at both sites are open 24/7 and are regularly restocked.

Please call 610-869-4712 or email to set up visits outside our regularly scheduled hours. 
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We are currently seeking volunteers for both locations: email us to enquire. We look forward to hearing from you!

DIRECTIONS
to Street Road
 here.
to The Little Free Library here.

A word about 'here':
We acknowledge that we are on the ancestral lands of the Lenape, original people of the mid-Atlantic area, forced west by British and US governments. Most Delaware Indian tribe descendants are now located in Oklahoma, Wisconsin, and Ontario. Lenni Lenapes in Pennsylvania are not officially recognized as tribes by the United States, though an estimated 5000 Lenape Nation descendants live in the Delaware River area. We pay respects to the Lenape people both past and present. Please consider the many legacies of violence, displacement and settlement that form part of our collective histories. While increased public recognition of these legacies and processes of redress such as Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission are positive steps, concrete focus on return of land and land rights remains a distant horizon.
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  • Home
  • Visit
  • CURRENT
    • Becoming Succession
    • HERE: a place-based polar image bridge
    • Near Dwellers
    • Near Dwellers as Roadkill
    • Near Dwellers as Friends
    • Near Dwellers as Indwellers
    • Dennis Haggerty – Various Small Envelopes
  • Multi-year enquiries, ongoing
    • Near Dwellers
      • 1: Near Dwellers and the Sharing of Breath, SLQS
      • 2: Near Dwellers as Legal Beings, Fawn Daphne Plessner and Susanna Kamon
      • 3: Near Dwellers as Creative Collaborators, Julie Andreyev and Ruth K. Burke
      • 4: Near Dwellers as Urbanites, Jesse Garbe and Doug LaFortune
      • 5: Near Dwellers as Roadkill, Lou Florence
      • 6. Near Dwellers as Friends
      • 7. Near Dwellers as Indwellers
    • Clouded Title
      • Clouded Title 2018
      • Clouded Title 2019
      • Clouded Title 2020/21 - Conversations
    • A(mobile)DRIFT
    • Summer Library
      • Summer Library, Librarian 12 – Robert Good
      • Summer Library, Librarian 11 – Christianna Potter Hannum
      • Summer Library, Librarian 10 – Christopher Murray
      • Summer Library, Librarian 9 – Maya Wasileski
      • Summer Library, Librarian 8 – Logan Cryer
      • Summer Library, Librarian 7 – Rhonda Ike
      • Summer Library 2021 closing event - The Anti-Anthropocene Bonfire Bookburning
      • Summer Library, Librarian 6 – Georgie Devereux
      • Summer Library, Librarian 5 – Mary Tasillo
      • Summer Library, Librarian 4 – Maria Möller
      • Summer Library, Librarian 3 – Rachel Eng
      • Summer Library, Librarian 2 – Lou Florence
      • Summer Library, Librarian 1 – Angella Meanix
  • Outdoor works, ongoing
    • Locust Leap
    • Domestic Rewilding - Ruth K. Burke
    • Supervene Forest
  • past
    • Multi-year
      • The Dust: American Matter
      • Heterotopia West, Adrian Barron
      • The Post Anthropocene Compost
      • Reigning Heads, Luyi Wang
      • Homma Meridian, by Kaori Homma
      • Folly by Anthony, Dennis, and Nicholas Santella
      • Street Road Rocks
      • Street Road Reading Group
      • Kaori Homma: Meridian Stone
      • unTOLLed Stories, Emily Artinian & Felise Luchansky
        • unTOLLed Stories
        • unTOLLed stories BLOG
      • Bees - Stella Lou Farm
    • 2023
      • May the Neotropical Arise — Zulu Padilla
    • 2022
      • Un-Boxing
      • Twentysix Wawa Stores
      • Winter Library
      • The Book of Ashes
    • 2021
      • Composting Hegel
      • Street Road Rocks at 10&41
      • Chain mail for bad communicators
      • BABE 2021
    • 2020
      • Castor
      • Dutchirican
    • 2019
      • Roots of Resistance
      • Seven Million Acres: Pride of place
      • LFL Exhibitions: Libbie Sofer, Transported
      • Emily Manko | Now, Then, When
      • Julia Hardman: if they're behind you they go too fast; if they're in front of you they go too slow
      • Summer 2019 Conversations
    • 2018
      • Walking Forward – Looking Back: Carol Maurer
    • 2017
      • Ceramic Sanctuary
      • Homestead: a permaculture project, StellaLou Farm (7/6 to 9/16/2017)
      • Shared Ground: Dennis Santella, Nicholas Santella and Anthony Santella, May-June 2017
      • back, forth: Street Road at 5 years 11/2016-4/2017
        • Anchor 1: Par Exemple, Ebenthal
        • Anchor 2: Homma Meridian
        • Anchor 3: The road out of town, McMurdo Sound
        • Anchor 4: Play Under’ from ‘Underneath
        • Anchor 5: Leni Lenape arrowhead collection
        • Anchor 6 : Open Wall
        • Anchor 7: Supervene Forest
        • Anchor 8: Chalfant
        • Anchor 9: Soviet Apartment Bloc, Tblisi, Georgia
        • Anchor 10 : Enskyment
      • #J20 (1/20/2017)
    • 2016
      • 24 Hour Liminal: Maria Möller (August-October 2016)
      • 7000 Acres: a residents' history of Londonderry Township (May 21-July 15, 2016)
      • The Tent of Casually Observed Phenologies (July 16, 2016)
      • Julia Dooley and Dr. Zoe Courville sci-art student project (4/22-23/16)
      • Maxim D. Shrayer and Christianna Hannum Miller (4/9/2016)
      • Fadi Sultagi's The Sanctuary of Bel, Palmyra (to 4/15/16)
      • Susan Marie Brundage and David A. Parker at Street Road and at The Christiana Motel (to 4/15/16)
      • Sasha Boyle
    • 2015
      • The Road Less Traveled, Danny Aldred
      • Sailing Stones (2015)
        • Julia Dooley: Images from the Bottom of the World and CryoZen Garden
        • José Luis Avila: hOMe
        • Kaori Homma: Meridian Stone
        • Egidija Ciricate: About Stones
        • L.A.N.D.
      • Crisis Farm: Seed to Table by Maryann Worrell and Doug Mott (2015)
      • Suburban Landscapes: Brian Richmond (2015)
    • 2014
      • Enskyment, by David A. Parker
      • Arterial Motives
        • Arterial Motives Exhibition
        • Arterial Motives Blog
      • Garage and Octorara Student Exhibition
      • Maxim D. Shrayer - Leaving Russia
    • 2013
      • Proposals of Belonging
      • Lost Highway 41 Revisited Blues (2013)
    • 2012
      • Compass (2012)
      • Parallax (2012)
    • 2011
      • The Lay of the Land (2011)
  • Street Road Press
  • Blogs
    • Blog: Winter 2016/17
    • Blog 2011-2016
    • T.S.W.H.
  • Little Free Library
    • Book Club
    • Little Free Library Blog