So…here’s the new look! This edition, with four new bonus stories, is due out from Quarto in March, 2018.
Read morePaperback Writer
Word from my publisher: a paperback edition of Rare Books Uncovered will be released in March 2018, and I’ve been commissioned to produce a few “bonus” stories for it, which…
Read moreFrom Page to Place
I’m excited to report that a chapter of mine will appear in the forthcoming anthology, From Page to Place: American Literary Tourism and the Afterlives of Authors (University of Massachusetts…
Read morePost-op: Rare Books Uncovered
Well, Rare Books Uncovered has been out in the world for about six weeks now–the publicity shelf life for most new books–so I’m sharing here a selection of reviews and…
Read moreSchedule of Events for “Rare Books Uncovered”
We are inching closer to the pub date (December 1) for Rare Books Uncovered: True Stories of Fantastic Finds in Unlikely Places. Events are beginning to fall into place, and…
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For the past 15 months, I’ve been working on a book called Rare Books Uncovered: True Stories of Fantastic Finds in Unlikely Places, which will be published in December by…
Read more19th-c. Surgical Books
I’m a book collector, and I’ve gone through phases in collecting. Most recently, my focus has been nineteenth- and early twentieth-century medical books, particularly those illustrated with “gruesome” surgical images.…
Read moreShakespeare’s 450th Birthday
A few years ago, I had the great pleasure to visit the Folger Shakespeare Library and behold its 82 First Folios (on a private tour). The fact that its creators…
Read more“A Blossom, or a Book”
The March/April issue of Victoria magazine is out now, and it contains my essay on herbaria — the Victorian-era scrapbooks brimming with dried flowers that can be found in archives…
Read moreVictoria Victorious
As we near the end of 2013, I’m so excited to report that I have been selected as Victoria magazine’s 2014 Writer-in-Residence. This means that I’ll be writing one (bookish)…
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