THULIA: A TALE OF THE ANTARCTIC… more below Got home from last week’s road trip in a fairly depleted state. I’d spent seven days banging around New England and I came back with a pocket full of traveling expenses, a head cold, and just a few interesting books to show for it. Worse still, the […] More >>
Archives for September 2011
It’s that day again – the one you’ve been waiting for all year
What is this image doing here? Read on, me hearties! Busy week. Learned that Sotheby’s Oct 5 photography auction is featuring one of the Diane Arbus images Bob discovered. He and I and my book Hubert’s Freaks all got plugs in the catalog description. Headed off to western CT Monday afternoon hoping to buy a […] More >>
Captain Nat’s Waistcoat
When you think of it, a printed book adheres to certain structural conventions, both as a physical object (lines read from left to right; ideas are developed in sequentially numbered pages, etc.) and in the abstract ways in which content depends on syntax for its expression, and genre is defined by rigid rules. Thus we […] More >>
A Matter of Luck
Two interesting books on the War of 1812 Recently my blog has gotten a couple of inquiries (for me “a couple” is huge) from customers and colleagues (one inquiry each). These two kindly individuals wanted to know why I haven’t featured any books in my blog for the past month or so? It’s flattering to […] More >>