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
Nicholas Basbanes
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
On a gorgeous spring morning when I would much rather be writing about a delightful trip to Southern California to give the Sa
Though I have always been a reader, I did not become a serious collector of books until I was in my mid-30s.
The Silk Road, sex and World War II, both behind closed doors, and fascinating curiosities of literature--what could be better for a week that begins in the satisfying aftermath of a three-game sweep…
By pure coincidence, it has been my good fortune to participate in the re-dedication of two libraries recently, the Cushing Memorial Library at Texas A&M in March--
First off, the proper provenance for those words--that "anything can be anywhere"--is the Larry McMurtry novel,
