Nicholas Basbanes

When you publish a book with a university press, the likelihood, far more often that not, is that you will generate a modicum of attention in your field of enquiry, and if you are lucky, earn the reco
September is right around the corner, and the new books for fall are starting to trickle in from the publishers.
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 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 on t
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