- From the Harvard Gazette, a report on Hollywood's take on Arthur Crew Inman's 17-million word diary, held at the Houghton Library. The film, "Hypergraphia," will star John Hurt. [h/t John Overholt]
- The winners of the 2010 National Book Critics Circle awards were announced this week.
- News that the Smithsonian has begun conservation work on the Jefferson Bible, which will also be digitized. The conserved bible will go on display this fall.
- Over on the Fine Books Blog, Rebecca Rego Barry reviews the recent PRB&M list "Libraries - Librarians - Labors!"
- Launched this week: the fascinating What Middletown Read database, drawing on the lending records of the Muncie, IN Public Library from 1891-1902. I'm glad to see more projects like this emerging (like the New York Society Library's lending ledger) - it's good stuff!
- From Dan Cohen, "Defining Digital Humanities, Briefly."
- From Early Modern Bibliography online, some good links and discussion of the proposed Digital Public Library of America.
- Over at the Foxhill Review, another look at the travesty that is Kessinger.
- Swann Galleries report on their sale of African-Americana this week: the top lot was an archive of the papers of educator Charles Harris Wesley, which made $43,500.
- A previously unknown copy of Blake's Poetical Sketches will be sold at Bonhams on 22 April.
- Well here's an interesting one: an investment fund claims to have been conned into buying rare books and portraits. Seems like sort of a complex story, which I'll have to dig into a bit, but among the defendants in the lawsuit are "Lou Weinstein, Heritage Book Shop, Krown & Spellman Booksellers, Michael Sharpe Rare & Antiquarian Books, W.P. Watson Antiquarian Books, and 19th Century Rare Book and Photograph Shop."
- The Boston Globe has cut two book reviewers.
- Rick Gekoski bids a fond farewell to the second-hand bookshop.
- Lisa Krieger reviews the new "American Enlightenment" exhibit now display at Stanford.
Reviews
- Maya Jasanoff's Liberty's Exiles; review by Pauline Maier in the Washington Post.
- James Nelson's With Fire and Sword; review by Chris Patsilelis in the Philadelphia Inquirer.
- Mat Johnson's Pym; review by Michael Dirda in the Washington Post.
- Richard Francis' Paradise Unachieved; review by Elaine Showalter in Literary Review.
- Rebecca Hunt's Mr. Chartwell; review by Tadzio Koelb in the NYTimes.
- Dale Peterson's The Moral Lives of Animals; review by Stephen Budiansky in the WSJ.
