Nicholas Basbanes
The Writers Room at 740 Broadway in New York advertises itself as "the nation's largest and oldest urban writers' colony," a vibrant little oasis of crea
There's a brand new book out there irresistibly titled Cardboard Gods: An All-American Ta
The news this week that the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris had acquired the manuscript memoirs of the great eighteenth-century Venetian lothario known to one and all as Casanova--Tiger Woods can o
Well, we've had some pretty interesting responses to my open request
earlier this week for movies that have had something to do with paper,
the only stipulation being that they have some basis in fact
earlier this week for movies that have had something to do with paper,
the only stipulation being that they have some basis in fact
What better way to say Happy New Year to a bibliophile than to recommend a literary calendar for daily use. A really lovely one to have for 2010 is the rare book calendar just released by E. M.
I have a couple more gift-book suggestions to propose, each one a recent arrival that came in too late to make my holida
It is an axiom in book collecting that the market value of an object is not necessarily determined by what one person is willing to pay for the privilege of ownership, but by the lengths to which a de
Indulge me, please, as I make a connection between the recent victory in the World Series of the New York Yankees--their 27th championship--and what so many futurists perceive to be the imminence of a
