Rebecca Rego Barry

So…here’s the new look! This edition, with four new bonus stories, is due out from Quarto in March, 2018.

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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)…