Kim Dower taught poetry for two years at Emerson College, her alma mater, before moving to Los Angeles and founding Kim-from-LA, a literary publicity company that specializes in coaching authors and speakers on how to present themselves to the media.

"On Reading," an exhibition on view at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, collects photos taken by Hungarian photographer Andre Kertesz over a decades' long career of people in private moments reading books, newspapers or magazines.