A book for every river: The 75th Anniversary of the Rivers of America June 12, 2012

“The natural rhythm moving the pioneer life of America forward was the rhythm of flowing water. It is as the story of American rivers that the folk sagas will be told.” – Constance Lindsay Skinner creator of the Rivers of America series Conceived and planned by Skinner in the mid-1930s during the depth of the Great Depression, the series planned to trace the history and folkways of the United States through its great rivers. …

Hail to the Book! A couple of booksellers get physical May 23, 2012

“if they are [books] to be of any use they must be as living friends or acquaintances and the whole art of forming and keeping a library consists in treating them on this footing alike mentally and materially” – from Books in the house by Alfred William Pollard, 1904 In this video, London booksellers Adrian Harrington and Jonathan Kearnes take us on a 15 minute tactile journey focusing on the physical, irreplaceable nature of the…

An actor clears his bookshelves: The Michael Lerner Collection at Bonhams April 10, 2012

Michael Lerner as Jack Lipnick in Barton Fink He is best known for his Academy Award® Nominated performance as Jack Lipnick, the Louis B. Mayer infused character in the Coen Brothers film Barton Fink. But Michael Lerner has been entertaining us on stage and screen since the late 1960’s. He has made guest appearances on classic television shows like the Brady Brunch, The Odd Couple and M*A*S*H and has also appeared as a guest star…

The Death of a Book Collector August 4, 2010

On July 31st Irwin Toby Holtzman, one of the more prominent book collectors and library supporters of the second half of the twentieth-century, passed away. Over the years Holtzman built numerous collections and the fruits of his labor can be found in 15 libraries around the world. Here’s a sampling of a few of his collections and where they now live: -The University of Michigan received his William Faulkner collection. -The British Library received…

Collecting Nurse Jackie’s Patron Saint: The Urtext of Memoirs April 19, 2010

Suddenly, It’s St. Augustine! That exclamation is neither a message from the Florida Board of Tourism nor the title of a wacky, new sit-com about a talking St. Bernard with identity issues. It is, rather, notice that recently, within the space of three days, I was struck by a cluster of references to the man who wrote the first memoir extant, the father of all autobiographies, St. Augustine, Bishop of Hippo. First, I’m skimming through…

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