More IMPAC

Toronto's Globe and Mail has posted a short excerpt from the 2008 IMPAC-winning novel De Niro's Game. Read it here.

Funny Pages at the U

David Hadju, author of The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America will be speaking at the University of Minnesota's Elmer L Anderson Library at 7:30pm on Tuesday, July 8. Details on the U's event are here. Reservations are recommended; call 612/624-9339 or email the library.Hadju's book details the furor that … Continue reading Funny Pages at the U

What’s Left Behind

The blog at ABEbooks.com recently featured an article about things found in used books. Among the discoveries were money, a Mickey Mantle rookie baseball card, and a tooth.I can attest to the range of items folks leave behind when they sell old books. I once found about a dozen marijuana leaves pressed in the pages … Continue reading What’s Left Behind