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Boe Rushing reports from the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar – it’s day four. ———————– Day four began with me realizing I have been living in a bubble for four days. The dorms where most of us are staying have no TVs and we’ve hardly been in our rooms anyway. It’s all books all the time. [...]

I have been seeing much written about Naomi Sims, since her death from cancer at 61 earlier this week. The pioneering first black supermodel also wrote a number of books. All About Health and Beauty for the Black Woman How to Be a Top Model All About Success for the Black Woman Sims, who studying [...]

Job-seekers interested in working for AbeBooks are invited to attend an open house being staged by our customer support department on Wednesday 29 July. As I am sure most people know, AbeBooks is an online marketplace for new, used, rare and out-of-print books. We are located in a fantastic office building close to downtown Victoria. [...]

Many of China’s migrant workers spend free time writing novels and poetry.

Eloisa Cartonera publishes the works of new and classic Latin American writers such Cesar Aira and Alejandro Lopez and purchases cardboard used in the books from the cartoneros. The cartoneros also paint and decorate the books.

In my 19-year working career, I have only been made redundant once. “Please put your office key and company credit on the table, and you will need to leave the building within the next hour.” It was the entire office staff and we went to the pub at 11am. I wasn’t actually that upset as [...]

Fans of the BBC2 reality series “Victorian Farm” will want to get their hands on the tie-in title, Victorian Farm: Rediscovering Forgotten Skills (also known as Tales From the Victorian Farm). Victorian Farm, a follow-up to the 2005 series Tales From the Green Valley which explored life on a 17th Century British farm,  follows archaeologists [...]

Don’t get lippy with the checkout girl next time you are in the supermarket buying your groceries – she might be blogging about you or even putting it into a book. Great article in the Daily Telegraph about French checkout girl Anna Sam and her book Les Tribulations d’une Caissiere. By chronicling her experiences with [...]

The Independent sheds some light on Kenneth Grahame’s inspiration for Toad from Wind in the Willows. I could have told you that Toad was modelled on a pompous self-important bank manager.

One of the last great mystery pulp writers passed on recently. The obituary of Edward D. Hoch was featured in The Guardian this morning. In every monthly issue since May 1973, Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine has featured a short story by Edward D Hoch. Hoch, who has died after a heart attack aged 77, was [...]