Elizabeth Little, author of Biting the Wax Tadpole: Confessions of a Language Fanatic (Melville House, 2008), discusses how she learned about the world by studying languages – and how she used her Queens neighborhood for research.

Biting the Wax Tadpole is available for purchase at Amazon.com.

Event
Elizabeth Little will be reading on Saturday at 6PM at Melville House Bookstore, 145 Plymouth Street in Brooklyn.