Remember when “going viral” was cool? Lovely long phone chat with old friend Allen Ahearn of Quill and Brush yesterday. I think we first met in the early 1980s, so there was no shortage of history to re-hash. But Allen, always an acute observer, also laid out an interesting idea having to do with the […] More >>
Archives for January 2021
The $25 Book
When I began my bookselling career as a maritime specialist, I made my living peddling $25 books. There were thousands of them – histories by people like Lubbock, Chatterton or Morison; autobiographies and adventures by Villiers or Newby; technical studies by Chapelle, Herreshoff, or MacGregor; sea yarns by Kent, O’Brian, and Forester; reprints of literary […] More >>
The Year That Was
I’m not telling you anything you don’t know when I tell you that our government’s response to the Pandemic has been shameful. Since last March more Americans have died from Covid 19 than we lost in all of WW II. Tens of millions of innocent people have endured financial devastation while our country’s billionaires […] More >>