Sunday was a huge day for me. At 7:55 a.m. I emailed my editor the corrected text of my novel, The Old Turk’s Load. This would be a happy event under any circumstances, marking, as it did, the completion of a long piece of writing, but in this case the occasion was given extra meaning […] More >>
Archives for November 2011
Catalog as Collage
Ross’ Appendix. (See below) Jed Birmingham is the son of an old family friend, and we became friends through our shared interest in the works of Charles Olson. Jed is a lawyer in DC, I think. I see him every spring at the Washington Antiquarian Book Fair, and at other east coast shows. I know […] More >>
The Pressure to Perform
Not “Night of the Living Dead” – it’s the scrum at the booth of Brattle Books during setup, starring Nicole Reiss This was, by most accounts, a good Boston Book Fair. Not an all-time great, but not a disaster. Pleasant weekend weather, vigorous promotion, and the lovely human capacity to ignore looming global fiscal catastrophe […] More >>
The Eyes Have It
Rare 18th century American whaling log. Details below Next weekend, November 11-13, the 35th Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair will be held at the Hynes Convention Center. I’ve been busy for a week preparing to exhibit at this event.After a spring and summer of provincial fairs (the last American ABAA/ILAB book fair was in April […] More >>