This very readable and lavishly illustrated book is a survey of libraries, from the earliest gatherings of clay tablets in the library at Nineveh to the present grandeur of the Library of Congress. It is full of the characters of library history as well: from King Assurbanipal in 700 BCE, Mansa Musa...
In September of 1965 Lorree Rackstraw was a graduate student in her second year at the Iowa Writer's Workshop, apprehensive about her new teacher, a relatively unknown writer named Kurt Vonnegut. Vonnegut had published just three books: The Sirens of Titan , Mother Night , and Cat's Cradle ....
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Paul Collins writes in a convivial and breezy style, and is the kind of natural storyteller who brings history to life. Nevertheless, in The Book of William , his scholarship and authority are undeniable, and make this book an important entry point for those interested in learning more about Shakespeare...
This morning over my first cup of coffee I read Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness ; and then Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird . I decided to read The Three Musketeers before jumping in the shower. This delightful book reduces most of the canon of "Western Literature" into a series...
When Clinton Heylin writes about Bob Dylan , people listen. His biography Dylan: Behind the Shades , not only dug deeper than any other biographer or Dylan enthusiast, the painstaking detail of his scholarship was obvious. So having the chance to get my hands on the first of a projected two-volume opus...