A Rare Week
Has winter broken? Has the fever broken? I am at a hotel. For the first time in over a year... Read More
Wonder Book Blog
Life of a Bookseller
When Will This Winter Ever End?
The thermometer reads 62 degrees in/ 25 degrees out. There is another layer of snow outside... Read More
History Can Be Ugly and Beautiful
The bookseller climbed the heights. The bookseller stepped to the edge. And then looked up... Read More
Snow Jobs—A Plague Interlude
Do you have a friend who is a doctor? Have you ever—at a winery, or the golf course, or the opera... Read More
Free Speech
I picked up a battered copy of Anthony Boucher's The Case of the Baker Street Irregulars... Read More
Give Me a Cart of Old Books
The week has been full of dreams. Elusive ones. But dreams that feel good upon awakening... Read More