Wi14: 'We Are Colleagues, Even if We Are Competitors'

"We are all different, and many of us are strange. But we are colleagues, even if we are competitors. My fellow booksellers are generous with their time and their knowledge. They don't hesitate to lend a hand to a fellow bookseller. They constantly try to make the tent larger so more of us, and those who are different than we are, can not only fit but thrive. The knowledge sharing, the Spanish-language book drive to send books to people at the border, the numerous seminars on ways to facilitate conversations across society's various divides found at Winter Institute make me proud to be a part of this profession."