A few days ago I received a really encouraging email from a fan who’d read and loved my crime novel, The Old Turk’s Load. I’ll condense a few of my fan’s favorable notes: You wrote that story with such precision and such dark humor. Elmore Leonard said: “I like Gibson’s writing, the effortless way he […] More >>

Last Call at Donohue’s in New York, ‘a Museum of What Bars Used to Be’ After 76 years as a Midtown favorite, the family-run restaurant says goodbye to its many, many regulars. By Pete Wells June 16, 2026 On Friday night, Maureen Donohue-Peters will turn out the lights one last time at Donohue’s Steak House, […] More >>

I’m off for the London Book Fairs and then a while in Ireland, and I don’t know if I’ll be blogging while on vacation unless the spirit moves me. So here are 7500 words to keep you busy. It’s the Anual Report for the Galen Fund, which is published each year as a booklet, with […] More >>

I heart NY Here’s a redacted blog post from 15 years ago, written on the occasion of the 2011 New York International Antiquarian Book Fair. I’d been doing the Armory show since the late 1980s, and this was the first one in which I did NOT have a booth. I simply shopped it and left […] More >>

With the demise of Papermania, the Allentown Book and Paper Show has taken an undisputed lead as the major show of its kind on the east coast. It started in the 1970s, more of an antique and flea market operation, I’ve been told. But I didn’t begin shopping it until the early 2000s, every two […] More >>