This past Monday, PBS released the first of its three-part, six-hour documentary exploring the life and work of Ernest Hemingway, directed by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick.
In October 1955, Allen Ginsberg read “Howl” publicly for the first time in front of a San Francisco audience that included fellow Beat Generation poets Gary Snyder, Jack Kerouac, and
Larry McMurtry, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Oscar-winning screenwriter, and esteemed antiquarian bookseller, who died last week at the age of 84, was something of a patron saint of bibliophi
Just a few weeks ago, the Harry Ransom Center in Austin, Texas, presented an online conversation with author/illustrator Edward Carey.
We learned earlier this week about the death of antiquarian bookseller Dorothy Sloan, “a pioneering woman in the book trade,” according to fellow bookseller John Windle.
In our new spring issue, we profile the brilliant Bryan A.
The 2021 California Young Book Collectors Prize has been awarded to Jessica Camille Jordan o
Yesterday we heard the news that Lawrence Ferlinghetti died on February 22 at the spectacular age of 101.
We first spoke to Nigel Beale, host of book culture podcast The Biblio File, almost ten years ago when he launched the Literary Tourist community an
As many of you know from her cameo in The Booksellers (2019), author Fran Lebowitz is very much a bibliophile.
