- A new exhibit at Washington & Lee University, "Beyond Text & Image: The Book as Art." The show opens on 25 February.
- And a new exhibit at my alma mater, Union College: "Dickens in America," which will run through early April.
- And a new exhibit at my alma mater, Union College: "Dickens in America," which will run through early April.
- The French government has purchased the 3,700-page manuscript of Casanova's memoirs. BNF head Bruno Racine said it was "the most important purchase ever made by the library."
- Book Patrol has a new report on the "mummy paper" question.
- A CA paper profiles Auburn collector Bill Ewald, who has almost 700 different editions of Richard Henry Dana's Two Years Before the Mast.
- Voting's now open for the 2009 Diagram Prize (weirdest book title). Go here, and the poll's about halfway down on the left margin. Here's some background on the shortlist.
- The Harry Potter plagiarism claims live on, the Telegraph reports.
- The Harry Potter plagiarism claims live on, the Telegraph reports.
- Salon's Jed Lipinski talks to Marilyn Johnson about her new book, This Book is Overdue!
- Writing in the NYRB, Jason Epstein offers some hints into the future of the publishing industry.
Reviews
- Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall: review by Christopher Hitchens in The Atlantic.
Reviews
- Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall: review by Christopher Hitchens in The Atlantic.
- Perez Zagorin's Hobbes and the Law of Nature: review by Jeffrey Collins in the WSJ.
