Stephen J. Gertz
Something happened to Maurice Girodias when he moved Olympia Press to New York during the late 1960s.
4:26AM : Troubled dreams. No sleep. Toss, turn. Aches, pains. What is happening 2 me?5:03AM : I feel like I'm sleeping in a carapace. I'd kill for a Tempurpedic mattress.
One of the highlights I experienced at the 2009 New York Antiquarian Book Fair was finally meeting Jed Birmingham, who I've been corresponding with over the last few years in connection with our
After packing books, traveling, checking-in to a hotel with an unfamiliar and uncomfortable bed, awaking jet-lagged, haggard, with lower and upper back muscle kinks, or with a serious case of post-cro
I've just returned from the Paperback Collectors Show & Sale, now in its thirtieth year, held for the last ten years in Mission Hills, CA, just ou
On April 21, 1954 a subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee was charged with investigating the causes of juvenile delinque
Often, I'll be walking down the street minding my own business when a complete stranger will come up to me and declare, "Steve, I desperately want to be a book collector but I have little money and no
Henry Bemis, the compulsive reader whose tragedy was limned in a short story by Lyn Venable and dramatized for television in a 1959 biopic written by Rod Serling for an episode of
We book folk are often socially inept or, if ept, we'd rather be reading: excepting the occasional clunker, a close relationship with books is very satisfying to the single/divorced and persnic
As I cannot eat meals at home without a few savory print-based side dishes as accompaniment, I routinely have reading matter piled on my little dining room table.
