{"id":1343,"date":"2023-03-07T10:15:58","date_gmt":"2023-03-07T15:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hexliterary.com\/?p=1343"},"modified":"2023-03-07T10:15:58","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07T15:15:58","slug":"a-word-of-advice-for-those-entering-the-library-profession-by-corey-farrenkopf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hexliterary.com\/?p=1343","title":{"rendered":"A Word of Advice for Those Entering The Library Profession by Corey Farrenkopf"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You\u2019ll find there is nothing more terrifying than feeling <em>Little Fur Family<\/em> by Margaret Wise Brown in the bookdrop. The cover\u2019s cutaway allows a tuft of hair to protrude from within. Your fingers will graze the animal hide and your mind will go to what animals could be dead inside the covered box. Mouse? Squirrel? Ermine? River Otter? Beaver? You\u2019ll recoil, stare at your hand as if you\u2019re Lady Macbeth and something has irrevocably stained your palm. Is there a smell? Shouldn\u2019t there be a smell if something\u2019s decaying in the heap of books? You\u2019ll sniff. You\u2019ll be confused. Then you\u2019ll remove the spring-loaded cart, only to realize someone in the design department at Harpers is an asshole who doesn\u2019t consider the aged hearts of librarians. I\u2019ve lost two coworkers to <em>Little Fur Family<\/em>. Google it. The leading cause of death in our profession is the sudden shock of the soft pelt where no soft pelt should be. Too many obituaries contain the cursed book. Too many lives have been lost in the service of tactile education. When Miss Agatha, your childhood librarian, has her viewing hour at Doan, Beal, and Ames, you\u2019ll know what landed her in that coffin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You\u2019re young and have been warned, but someday, you too will be the same age as Miss Agatha and <em>Little Fur Family<\/em> will still be in print.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is a classic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is eternal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Little Fur Family<\/em> comes for us all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You are no exception.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">________<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Corey Farrenkopf lives on Cape Cod with his wife, Gabrielle, and works as a librarian. He is the fiction editor for <\/em>The Cape Cod Poetry Review<em>. His work has been published in <\/em>The Southwest Review<em>,<\/em> Smokelong Quarterly<em>, <\/em>Three-Lobed Burning Eye<em>,<\/em> Uncharted<em>,<\/em> Wigleaf<em>,<\/em> The Florida Review<em>,<\/em> Tiny Nightmares<em>,<\/em> <em>and elsewhere. To learn more, follow him on twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CoreyFarrenkopf\">@CoreyFarrenkopf<\/a> or on the web at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coreyfarrenkopf.com\/\">CoreyFarrenkopf.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>You\u2019ll find there is nothing more terrifying than feeling Little Fur Family by Margaret Wise Brown in the bookdrop. The cover\u2019s cutaway allows a tuft <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/hexliterary.com\/?p=1343\" title=\"A Word of Advice for Those Entering The Library Profession by Corey Farrenkopf\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hexliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hexliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hexliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hexliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hexliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1343"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hexliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1346,"href":"https:\/\/hexliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343\/revisions\/1346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hexliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hexliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hexliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}