By Pasco Gasbarro—Twelve great movies every book collector should see (and one everybodyy should skip).

By Dan Gregory—How a Christmas card, a poem, a Time magazine article, and even a few novels inspired some of Hollywood's greatest films.

By Ellen Firsching Brown—Is taking a knife to a book desecration or reinvigoration?

By Nicholas Basbanes—Collecting word books.

By Derek Hayes—The U.S. Coastal Survey.

By Richard Goodman—Lydia Rubio’s art of the book.

By Joel Silver—Broadsides have changed the world.

A Gone with the Wind fan(atic).

Actor Michael Lerner, the Great Gatsby feud, the end of Gotham Book Mart, and more.

Fine Pick: Adaptations: short stories on the silver screen.

Collecting cinema history.

By Ian McKay—Mormon hymns, Yiddish customs, lighthouses, blue books, and more.