Nicholas Basbanes
September is right around the corner, and the new books for fall are starting to trickle in from the publishers.
Talk about a sobering way to say good bye to summer and usher in the official arrival of fall. On Sept.
Hats off to Andy Woodworth, a New Jersey librarian, for coming up with a splendid way of making people think about their libraries. and generating a good deal of fun at the same time.
In case you haven't heard, there is a brand new edition of Ernest Hemingway's fictionalized memoir of his expatriate years in Paris during the 1920s, A Moveable Feast, now arriving in book
In the week that has passed since my last posting, I have exhausted my supply of recreational reading, a circumstance that has occasioned a trip to Parnassas Books, one of my favorite haunts here o
Greetings and Happy Independence Day from Sandwich, Mass., on Cape Cod Bay.
The University of Virginia announced last week the appointment of Michael F. Suarez, S. J.
A concept I find absolutely fascinating is the social history of
books--learning something about through whose hands a volume may have
passed, and the various lives it has touched--not just the d
books--learning something about through whose hands a volume may have
passed, and the various lives it has touched--not just the d
It's been weeding time around here the last couple of weeks, an exercise I undertake every year or so to see which books I once felt were mine forever--and a number of them have been around long enoug
