October 12, 2017
Book Tourist
You don’t have to travel to exotic locations to be a proper book tourist. Take my recent visit to a used bookstore in Sherman, New York, or the rack of […]
November 29, 2015
“Merely in living as and where we live”: Part II
Last week, on a bright, blustery Baltimore morning, Joseph Harrison rang the doorbell at 32 W 25th Street, and we entered Royal Books. Specializing in first editions, the store is a book […]
November 27, 2015
“Merely in living as and where we live”: Part I
In my previous post, I imagined the thrill of a first encounter with Wallace Stevens’s “Sunday Morning,” which appeared for the first time in Poetry 100 years ago this month, November 1915. […]