Andrew Vachss's Blog - Posts Tagged "public-library"
Putting the public back into "public library"
A public library is just that: a collection of books owned by the public. Your tax dollars keep the doors open, the lights on ... and the shelves full. What those shelves are filled with, you get some say in.
We're hoping you'll help us in our mission to recode the cultural software as it pertains to bullies, by telling your local public library you want them to carry HEART TRANSPLANT by Andrew Vachss, Frank Caruso, and Zak Mucha. We've designed a request form you can use for this purpose. Check it out at http://vachss.com/av_novels/heart2.html
We're hoping you'll help us in our mission to recode the cultural software as it pertains to bullies, by telling your local public library you want them to carry HEART TRANSPLANT by Andrew Vachss, Frank Caruso, and Zak Mucha. We've designed a request form you can use for this purpose. Check it out at http://vachss.com/av_novels/heart2.html
Behavior *is* the truth
...and one person can make a difference.
The goal of Heart Transplant is—always has been, since Andrew, Frank and Zak conceptualized it—to recode the cultural software as it pertains to bullying. It's an effective tool for doing that, and the timing couldn't be better. But any tool left in a drawer can't get the job done.
We're not asking anyone to buy a copy. What we are asking you to do is make a bigger commitment than that. We want you to go to your local public library and ask to speak to the person in charge of purchasing books for the library. Ask that person if they were offered Heart Transplant; give them a copy of this brochure; then check in with us to let us know who you contacted and what they said.
Here is a list of those who have checked back in to let us know they got their local library to carry Heart Transplant—a list of people we respectfully call Heart Donors:
# Stephanie Bixler
# C. Dionysios Dionou (who's also with us in boycotting Yahoo! email addresses, and whose memoir about transcending childhood abuse will be coming in the next year)
# Ed Haggerty [Nashua (NH) Public Library]
# Saffron Kathryn Loynd Hall
# Barney Holmes
# Colleen J. Johnson
# Bracken MacLeod [Cambridge (MA) Public Library]
# Roland Murphy [Phoenix (AZ) Public Library]
# Tim Niland [Old Bridge (NJ) Public Library]
# Adrian O'Leary [Pikes Peak (NY) Library District and Hooked On Books]
# Thomas Pluck
# Muriel Schnierow [River Forest (IL) Public Library, and she's now working on Oak Park and Forest Park]
# David Stevens [Norfolk (VA) Public Library]
# Paul Thomas
The goal of Heart Transplant is—always has been, since Andrew, Frank and Zak conceptualized it—to recode the cultural software as it pertains to bullying. It's an effective tool for doing that, and the timing couldn't be better. But any tool left in a drawer can't get the job done.
We're not asking anyone to buy a copy. What we are asking you to do is make a bigger commitment than that. We want you to go to your local public library and ask to speak to the person in charge of purchasing books for the library. Ask that person if they were offered Heart Transplant; give them a copy of this brochure; then check in with us to let us know who you contacted and what they said.
Here is a list of those who have checked back in to let us know they got their local library to carry Heart Transplant—a list of people we respectfully call Heart Donors:
# Stephanie Bixler
# C. Dionysios Dionou (who's also with us in boycotting Yahoo! email addresses, and whose memoir about transcending childhood abuse will be coming in the next year)
# Ed Haggerty [Nashua (NH) Public Library]
# Saffron Kathryn Loynd Hall
# Barney Holmes
# Colleen J. Johnson
# Bracken MacLeod [Cambridge (MA) Public Library]
# Roland Murphy [Phoenix (AZ) Public Library]
# Tim Niland [Old Bridge (NJ) Public Library]
# Adrian O'Leary [Pikes Peak (NY) Library District and Hooked On Books]
# Thomas Pluck
# Muriel Schnierow [River Forest (IL) Public Library, and she's now working on Oak Park and Forest Park]
# David Stevens [Norfolk (VA) Public Library]
# Paul Thomas
