In the interests of national unity and harmony, amazon.com has divvied up all its books into Red and Blue, then mapped their purchases, thereby creating a multihued map of our diversity and variety. Or they've simply demonstrated something booksellers in the Twin Cities could have told you already (for example, here--scroll down to the last … Continue reading Crimson, Scarlet, and Incarnadine

Children's author and illustator Maurice Sendak revealed two things about himself in the New York Times earlier this week:He's a bit of a curmudgeon. "'I hate people,' he said at one point, extolling the superior company of dogs, like his sweet-tempered German shepherd, Herman (after Melville)."He's gay. "“I just didn’t think it was anybody’s business,” … Continue reading Wild Things

According to WBIR, in Knoxville, TN,"A Shawano, Wisconsin man bought a book for a dollar at the Shawano City County Library Annual book sale, only to find out it's worth thousands. Fred Eberlein picked up the an 1848 printing of "The Life of George Washington" by John Marshall." Details, such as they are, are here.Got … Continue reading Needle in a Haystack