'Double Fold' at 10

Has it really been ten years since Nicholson Baker shook up the cozy world inhabited by librarians and conservators with... read more

Memories on the Block

Call it bittersweet, if you like, but the sale next week of the entire contents of the City of Boston's... read more

Reynolds Price, Author, "Fellow Bibliomaniac"

Reynolds Price, a true southern gentleman and one of the outstanding American writers of his generation, died yesterday at 77,... read more

Bowdlerizing Mark Twain

If Michiko Kakutani's column in today's New York Times is not the best read and most emailed piece in the... read more

Some Nick's Picks to Start the Year

I have decided to start the new year off with a few books that came to my attention a bit... read more

Nick's Picks: Stocking Stuffers

My Reading Life, by Pat Conroy; Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 333 pages, $25. One of America's truly great storytellers, the incomparable... read more

William E. Self, Producer, Bookman

The passing last week of the Hollywood film and television producer William E. Self was noted by prominent obituaries published... read more

Nick's Picks: Five Winners

Looking for some stocking stuffers? Here are five beauties I particularly recommend, with more to follow in the weeks to... read more

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