In Herman Melville’s bicentennial year, which he shares with Walt Whitman, Chronicle Books has published a
It’s Walt Whitman’s bicentennial year, and that has meant lots of press for ‘America’s poet.’ A feature story in our current issue explores the three major New York-based exhibitions on view the…
Author-illustrator Maira Kalman’s bibliography is an impressive one.
This rather odd-looking globe headed to auction in New York on June 12 reveals
A pretty busy auction run this week; here are a few things I'm keeping an eye on:
In 1866, a teenage Bram Stoker lurked in the shadow of St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Dublin. What was the future author of Dracula up to?
Stephen King’s first published novel, Carrie, about a bullied high-schooler who uses telekinetic powers to exact revenge, was released in hardcover in 1974 and met with moderate success.
On June 12, New York’s Lion Heart Autographs, Inc. will offer at auction the prison diary kept by a British Royal Air Force Officer imprisoned by the Nazis during World War II.
