In the early 1990s, Nancy Pearl was working as a librarian in Tulsa, Oklahoma, when her daughter dropped out of college at the University of Chicago and moved to Seattle to, in Pearl’s words, “hang out at the market and smoke a lot of stuff and all that.” Soon Pearl came out to visit her daughter and saw a friend who had left Tulsa to work at Seattle Public Library. “And he said, ‘What if I could find the money and we could create a position for you to come out here and do what you do best, which is talk about books and put
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