Make America Read Again

Mr. Bannon is the chief librarian of the New York Public Library, where he is also the director of branch libraries and education.

Walking up Madison Avenue during January’s polar vortex, I turned the corner onto 39th Street and hit a line of puffy coats, tote bags and young people with wired headphones. I had no idea what they were waiting for until I reached Fifth Avenue and saw that the line ended at the New York Public Library’s front door.

We had opened the library for a large-scale reading party for........

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