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 […]
Digital Essays
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 […]
The Grolier Club is a private community of bibliophiles located in New York City that featured an exhibition focused on women’s history, literature, and work called Five Hundred Years of Women’s Work: The Lisa Unger Baskin Collection. Lisa Unger Baskin, a Grolier Club member and well-known collector, helped curated […]