Robert Caro’s home library
From The Washington Post , “A peek inside Robert Caro’s home library, hidden shelves and all.”
From The Washington Post, “A peek inside Robert Caro’s home library, hidden shelves and all.”
NYRB sale
Big savings.
FSRC: annual report
The Four Seasons Reading Club, our household’s two-person adventure in reading, has finished its ninth year.
“Decline by 9”
In “Not Lost in a Book” (Slate ), Dan Kois writes about a decline in children’s reading.
Bookstores, reading, data
from the Department of Data at The Washington Post, bad news and some good news about bookstores and reading.
E.M. Forster on books on Frasier
Words in Niles’s library.
NYRB sale
The Four Seasons Reading Club placed an order this afternoon for Anton Chekhov, Helen Keller, and Jean Stafford.
Barnes & Noble redesigning
Different designs for different stores, and an emphasis on books. I haven’t seen anything like this at our nearby Barnes & Noble, which still teems with tchotchkes and whatnot, especially at the registers.
Elysium
My copy of Katherine Mansfield’s Stories (1956) is stamped with the owners’ names and address — three times, like a library book. So I looked up the names
Charlie Watts: Literature and Jazz
A Christie’s auction.
Robert Gottlieb (1931-2023)
“I would read three to four books a day after school, and could read for 16 hours at a time,” he told the Times in 1980. “Mind you, that’s all I did. I belonged to three lending libraries and the public library.”
First!
Illinois bans book bans.
“Books are weapons in the war of ideas”
A 1942 poster with words from Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Books UnBanned
Books UnBanned offers readers between the ages of thirteen and twenty-one, anywhere in the United States, a year’s free access to the Brooklyn Public Library’s e-books and audiobooks.
Don’t like a library book?
From Take action for libraries, a handy step-by-step guide: “What do I do if I don't like a book at the library?”
FSRC: annual report
The Four Seasons Reading Club, our household’s two-person adventure in reading, has finished its eighth year. A full report follows.
School Trip grandparents
I think they’re drawn to look unmistakably like Logan Roy and Gerri Kellman of Succession. Am I right?
A new book from Jerry Craft
Drew: “You know, never really see kids like us traveling in books and movies.” Maury: “I wonder why that is.” Jordan: “Hmmm . . .”
Vekkia book light
Small, sturdy, just right.
Some books are to be tasted, &c.
Edible books. From Steven Millhauser’s From the Realm of Morpheus.
The Internet Archive in the courts
The Washington Post: ”A federal judge has sided with four publishers who sued an online archive over its unauthorized scanning of millions of copyrighted works and offering them for free to the public. Judge John G. Koeltl of U.S. District Court in Manhattan ruled [March 24] that the Internet Archive was producing “derivative” works that required permission of the copyright holder.”
Ronald Blythe (1922–2022)
Author of Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village.
Shelves, books off the, books on the
Finding Steven Millhauser books.
A Jerry Craft interview
From NPR. He has a new book, School Trip, coming out in April.
Tom Phillips (1937–2022)
I am the happy possessor of the second edition of A Humument. Looking at any page is an inspiration.
In the great green room
One of the great moments of grandparenthood (so far): reading Goodnight Moon to a granddaughter who pulled it from the shelf at bedtime and said she didn’t understand it.
Raymond Briggs (1934–2022)
Writer and illustrator of The Snowman (1978), among many other books.
Book chain
I like this story from Southampton, England: “Human chain move thousands of books into new October Books store.”
FSRC: annual report
Our household’s two-person reading club: novels, novellas, short-story collections, graphic novels, non-fiction, a Socratic dialogue, a children’s story, and a poem.
Egghead paperbacks
In The American Scholar, Mark LaFlaur writes about Jason Epstein and “The Birth of the Egghead Paperback.”