A storyteller's own story. Larry McMurtry is a legendary and award-winning author, who has been acknowledged with a Pulitzer Prize for Lonesome Dove as well as an Academy Award for his Brokeback Mountain screenplay. He's also a bookstore owner. In Books: A Memoir, McMurtry gives us a fascinating and surprisingly intimate memoir of his lifelong passion of buying, selling, and collecting rare and antiquarian books.
A book devoted to that mysterious and possibly endangered activity: reading. It starts with the truism, often forgotten, that without the reader no books would exist--and no literature. Noted...
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Richly anecdotal and fully documented, this history of book-collecting is a celebration of books and the people who have revered, gathered and preserved them over the centuries.
From an elegant, curved modern library with sunny picture windows to a simple apartment library with floor-to-ceiling bookshelves, this guide showcases 40 libraries and offers professional advice on...
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This is a focused, respectful, entertaining guide to getting sentences into good shape. Bell describes grammar and usage problems in ways that make immediate sense and explains precisely what...
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Inspired by a landmark exhibition mounted by the British Museum in 1963 to celebrate five eventful centuries of the printed word, Nicholas A. Basbanes offers a lively consideration of writings that...
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In this tenth-anniversary edition, author Tom Raabe takes a humorous look at the all-consuming love of books and updates the volume with a discussion of the ever-mutating new E-landscape and its...
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Margaret Atwood's collection of essays and reviews ranges over a broad subject matter: feminism, pornography, aging, her own writing, and books by Canadians (including ANNE OF GREEN GABLES and LIFE...
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Alberto Manguel, the Argentinean writer and critic, roams around the world and thinks about what he is reading. In these thoughtful appreciations, he ponders writers as diverse as H.G. Wells and...
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This brief guide argues that, in the future, books will be less precious than the time it takes to read them. It addresses how to tackle personal "must read" lists and pare them down to the books...
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The primary goal of this groundbreaking effort is to encourage book-lovers to organize day-trips and other kinds of literary outings to cities and towns with interesting, fun, and unique bookstores...
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