This is the site of the slip where the 885 foot Titanic was built After a few days in London cadging meals from our English colleagues, we moved on to Dublin, then up to Belfast, a part of Ireland that, somehow, we’d never yet visited. There, Anne Marie found us a flat in the so-called […] More >>
Archives for March 2017
Chickens I’m Currently Counting
It’s getting harder and harder to write in any meaningful way about book events produced by Marvin Getman and Impact Events Group. He’s developed such a reliable product, with a such a consistent look and feel, that there’s rarely anything to squawk about. So, that’s the sum total of my report on last weekend’s Ephemera […] More >>
What if They Were Right… Whoever They Were?
The life of a journeyman major league book dealer (any one who makes his or her living in the trade as a hunter-gatherer, anyone not named Bill, Jim, Pom, Ed, or Don, or anyone not from the other side of the Atlantic whose shoes are worth more than most of your books)… this journeyman life, […] More >>
Hoping for a Better Trip
Isn’t it strange that all the big New York controversies of years past have gone by the way? Remember the Book Fair Wars of several years past? Now here we are with Sandy, Marvin, and the Flamingoz all sorted out. Or what about the “Who Will Replace Sandy?” brouhaha, or last year’s shameful Sandy Smith/Park […] More >>