Rebecca Rego Barry
It’s October! Time to check in with “Weird Historian” (and book collector) Marc Hartzman.
In the fifteenth-century, physicians might consult the stars as they pondered when medieval interventions might work best.
In our spring 2016 issue, we interviewed master magician and book collector Ricky Jay on the occasion of the publication of his
Four hundred years ago, Oxford scholar Robert Burton published what some now consider the ‘grandfather of all self-help manuals,’ The Anatomy of Melancholy.
Every so often, it’s my pleasure to report on Fine Books’ esteemed team of writers.
Today is publication day for a limited edition manuscript facsimile of John Steinbeck’s National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize winner, The Grapes of Wrath (1939).
Medieval manuscripts dealer Les Enluminures of Paris, New York, and Chicago is celebrating thirty years in the business this fall.
The Federal Writers’ Project, the writing/publishing arm of the Works Progress Administration, has become topical in the literary world again.
Centuries’ worth of scribbled notes and doodles in manuscripts and early printed books will be revealed tomorrow in Bryn Mawr College’s new exhibition,
