Recently, I posed a question for my fellow writers and scholars:  if you had to pack a writerly “bug-out bag,” something you could grab in case you had to vacate your home quickly in an emergency, what would you put in it? This task was much on my mind because I was then faced with the problem of setting aside just one box full of books that I could keep with me throughout this summer of dislocations and relocations.  The night before packers came to my home to box up all our earthly possessions and send them to storage, I Read more