Turabian, fourth edition
“Writers of the era used the tools depicted on the book’s front and back covers to create written documents by making marks on thin sheets of a material called “paper” and fastening the sheets together.”
A Manual for Writers of Dissertations
“This sixty-one-page manual is the predecessor of A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations, now in its seventh edition.”
The Wheel of Information
Five tiers, eight hundred books, forty-five years on the job.
&QuA?
Bravo to the publisher who thought it fitting to give a lovely bouquet of letters and punctuation marks to a textbook.
On being an information packrat
At BrownStudies, one, two, three, four engaging and thought-provoking posts on being an information packrat.
Le Steak de Paris
Maeve Brennan writes about this restaurant several times in The Long-Winded Lady, more than about any other.
Eighth Street Bookshop
The Eighth Street Bookshop, run by brothers Eli and Ted Wilentz, is one of the now-defunct businesses that make an appearance in Maeve Brennan’s The Long-Winded Lady.
Maeve Brennan, The Long-Winded Lady
To read The Long-Winded Lady in 2012 is to read about a lost Manhattan.
The dinner hour
When was the dinner hour?
Harvey Pekar’s Cleveland
A place in which to work, worry, and observe.
Donald J. Sobol (1924–2012)
Donald J. Sobol, the creator of Encyclopedia Brown, has died at the age of eighty-seven.
Too Late the Phalarope
I think I’m a better person for having read Too Late the Phalarope. And now I wonder why its enigmatic title didn’t move me to read it sooner.
French bookstores
The New York Times reports that bookstores in France are flourishing.
War and Peace, Nookd
“When any seeker of a fast ninety-nine cents can get hold of a public-domain translation and package it as an e-book, this sort of sloppiness threatens to become the norm.”
Virginia Woolf on second-hand books
“Second-hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.”
“In March read”
“In March read the books you’ve always meant to read”: a WPA poster.
Barney Rosset (1922–2012)
Of Grove Press.
“People are getting rid of bookshelves”
J.L. Sathre on unning a bookstore.
Barnes & Noble v. Amazon (2)
The New York Times reports that Barnes & Noble bookstores will not stock Amazon-published books.
Barnes & Noble v. Amazon
“Using the bookstore to sell e-books makes it unnecessary to go to the bookstore, except to use it as a library or life-sized catalogue, or to have coffee.”
Print as the new vinyl
From an e-mail by an “industry insider”: “Long-term there’s no future in printed books.”
Blue October
WPA poster: “A good time to Read!”
Lost James M. Cain novel
To be published next fall.
“Inside Amazon’s warehouse”
“Only one of the employees interviewed described it as a good place to work.”
Elsie’s Cook Book
By Elsie the Cow. A library book-sale find.
Banned Books Week
Celebrating the freedom to read.
Overheard
“I hate books that you have to read from cover to cover.”
Borders to close
“For months now, the online welcome message from my nearby Borders has seemed tinged with pathos.”
A secret location on the Upper East Side
A three-minute film by Andrew David Watson about a used-book store in a Manhattan apartment.
Romney Wordsworth, obsolete
Fifty years ago, a world without librarians and libraries was the stuff of a totalitarian nightmare. Now it seems that we’re closer to living in The Twilight Zone.