New Fine Books Notes

The January Fine Books Notes is out: it includes a piece by Stephen Maugan on the continuing fight over the literary estate of Jack Kerouac; Nick Basbanes on Carol Fitzgerald (author of The Rivers of America and now Series Americana); a good auction recap by Ian McKay; an interview with Jeffrey Cramer (editor of a new edition of Thoreau's Maine Woods); a column by yours truly on the 1971 theft and recovery of a volume of Union College's Birds of America; and some new features, including book reviews and a list of catalogs received.