Much has been made over the past couple of weeks on the matter of two presidents--one being sworn in tomorrow, the other heading back to Texas after eight years in the Oval Office--and what they have

The National Endowment for the Arts has released a new survey with the exciting news that "literary" reading in the Uni

It's always pretty sad when we note the passing of a great book store, as happened to be the case in 2007 when the Gotham Book Mart, long a cultural landmark in Midtown Manhattan, took its last breath

Given that my day job, as it were, is the writing of nonfiction, I wish I could express adequately the utter dismay I feel at the

Today, we have redux of another kind, and not one that is
very pleasant to report.

The idea of "luxury publishing" is by no means a
new concept, the tradition of artisans being commissioned by wealthy patrons to
create exquisite books that are coveted as works of art in and of
thems