A Reflection on Leah Price’s What We Talk About When We Talk About Books “It’s true that bookstore sales’ and revenues have declined in the past decade. But the fact that the dip began right after the 2008 recession suggests that the culprit is financial, not technological. And it’s true that […]
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The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture was founded in 1925 by Puerto-Rican scholar Arturo Alfonso Schomburg, but 20 years prior the building itself was known as the 135 St. Branch library. The center is located in West Harlem and is open Monday – Saturday from 10am-6pm, offers free […]
My introduction to bibliography awakened a dormant mind that brought back memories of experiences and yet an unlearned knowledge about the world of bookmaking. The art of writing a book, a poem, a short story or even a Haiku has its beginning, it has a past, it has a history, […]
In The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing, Japanese author Marie Kondo introduces readers to the KonMari method. This method was created to assist folks with tidying up their homes — one category at a time. In tidying up our homes and workspaces, our […]
The artifact that caught my interest most at 500 Years of Women’s Work: The Lisa Unger Baskin Collection, a 2020 exhibition at The Grolier Club, was a picture of a woman photographed by Jesse Torrey. The woman in the photo named Ann Williams, was jumping out of a three story […]
While trying to choose from a myriad of different collections at New York’s Antiquarian Book Fair this past March, I was drawn to a very beautiful book on Japanese Inro. The book, titled A Paper on Inro: Read Before the Japan Society, was written by Michael Tomkinson in 1895 and […]
While Leah Price is one of The Book’s big defenders and believes in it being revered, she also acknowledges the popularity of modern technology and the fact that it does not seem to be going anywhere anytime soon. In chapter two of What We Talk About When We Talk About […]
“Here’s what happened instead. Sales of printed books rebounded in the decade that followed—rising as steadily as electronic book sales leveled off. In the United States, 2011 was the year in which more ebooks were sold than hard covers; by 2016, though hardbacks were outstripping ebooks once again. And since […]
