Index, A History of the by Dennis Duncan
I’ve worked as a librarian and spent years doing taxonomy work which is akin to indexing. I heard the author interviewed on the New York Times Book podcast awhile back and he came across as lively and knowledgeable so I had to buy the book….
Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts by Christopher De Hamel
As a physical object, this is a book to relish and step into as if it were well manicured hot house. Bound in a creamy, white vinyl like substance it feels great in my hands and it contains gorgeous photos of pages from the dozen…
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honoree Fanonee Jeffers
Fiction is elastic and supple in form and substance. This novel drives that point home in the way it is both a sophisticated telling of a painful tortured past and of a resilient, dynamic people. While the heart of the story is Ailey Garfield who…
Yi Sang: Selected Works
Yi Sang lived from 1910 to 1937 as a Korean man born into the country’s occupation by the Japanese. He came of age during the late nineteen twenties and early thirties which were tumultuous years economically, socially and politically. In 1931 he was diagnosed with…
Why I Wake Up Early by Mary Oliver
As an early riser myself, I couldn’t resist such a collection so titled. Mostly short, lyrical poems celebrating the natural world. That description makes it sound like any other collection by so many other poets. And what is wrong with that? I believe there are…
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