“My Beloved World”

I was struck recently by this line from Garret Keizer in his opinion piece in the August 14 New York Times relating his own view about books to those opting for book banning: “Like it or not, we belong to the same minority, the minority of those who believe in the power of literature in a post-literate age.” There is a lot about us as a people packed into that sentence about book banning, but perhaps most of all that he thinks that we live in “a post-literate age”! Maybe a bit overstated, but scary nevertheless. One of the literature-powerful minority is certainly Associate Justice of the Supreme Court Sonia Sotomayor. She was appointed to the Court by President Barack Obama in 2009. In 2014 she published a memoir, which includes description of her very difficult childhood. It is en…