Tag: Tom Corwin

The Rebirth of a Bookmobile

It started innocently enough. Over dinner a friend mentioned that he saw a used bookmobile for sale on Craigslist and wished he could by it.That was all the impetus Tom Corwin needed, "By the end of dinner, I had come up with this whole concept of buying the bookmobile myself, and having authors join me, taking turns behind the wheel, and driving across the country interviewing people about the books that have touched their lives and creating a documentary film and a Web-based literacy outreach component" Corwin told the San Francisco Chronicle.He was soon off to suburban Chicago to buy...

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