Books Bring Calm

An oasis in NYC

I am writing from inside the New York Public Library, where I’m doing some research in The New Yorker Arhives that are housed here. This is my second visit (last time was in the early 2000’s for my book. This time for my documentary), and I love it.

Below is the door to the room one goes into to research from the special collections. This is where The New Yorker Archives are. The day before, I have to give them a list of boxes I want to look in (lists of contents are online) and they bring them up from somewhere deep in the building!

We are not allowed to take photos in this room, except for the stuff we are researching. But I drew this woman sitting across from me. I drew her on my phone with my finger:

I’m going to come back next week and continue my research. I’ll bring my iPad to do more drawings with an…