Charlie Lee

Charlie Lee is an assistant editor of Harper’s Magazine. He lives in Brooklyn, NY.

An excerpt from The Library: A Fragile History by Andrew Pettegree and Arthur der Weduwen

A new biography of one of the past century’s most eclectic writers

A mournful silence in the Stage City

Holt Cemetery has been filled to capacity many times over; each gravesite has been used for dozens of burials