A Librarian’s Manifesto: A Guest Post by Eric Lundgren

We were gobsmaked by Eric Lundgren’s very clever, very witty, and slightly off-kilter debut novel, The Facades, in much the same way we were by Robin Sloan’s 2012 Discover selection, Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore. Sven Norberg’s wife is missing, and his search for clues about her disappearance brings him face to face with an underworld of librarians, music critics and mall workers that’s at once outrageous and familiar as he follows the trail deep into his odd Midwestern town. Lundgren riffs on libraries, librarians, and the genesis of his novel in a guest post on the Discover blog.