My office over here at 77 Langsford St. doubles as a guest room, so when company comes, I head to the basement. It’s more crowded with junk down there, but it’s very quiet. No interruptions other than the sounds of the building’s machinery starting and stopping. I used this writing hole even before we moved […] More >>
Archives for September 2021
New York State of Mind
Here’s a note from an old customer who’d bought something from my last catalog and was looking forward to getting together at the New York Book Fair. Last time there was a New York Fair, we had a drink at Donohue’s and all the good old boys were there, Bruno with his affable, bearish growls, […] More >>
“All Americans Must Be Trojans at Heart”
I’m still up in the woods, so didn’t get much of a sense of the much-ballyhooed (virtual) ABAA/ILAB NEW YORK INTERNATIONAL ANTIQUARIAN BOOK FAIR. My question is this: Did retail customers fill the (virtual) aisles and spend like drunken sailors (with apologies to all sailors), or was it more like the dealer-t0-dealer event I’ve been […] More >>
How Modern Greek Came to America
As promised, here is the first of 2 guest blogs by Curtis Runnels, who has kindly agreed to fill this spot while I’m up in the north woods trying to finish the damned novel I’ve been working on for 6 years. Curtis Runnels, Professor of Archaeology at Boston University and an expert in Palaeolithic archaeology […] More >>