It's between Christmas and New Year's, that peculiar time which doesn't exactly fit anywhere.  School is still on vacation, peop...

Day One of training has come to an end. It turns out our model is perfect . I tried to stump the engineer with troubles other operators have...

Our very own Elizabeth, from the Gifts o' Love Department, has been busily constructing a virtual Ziggurat of romance: mountains of Sea...

Since my first posting on the sad news that Stacey's Bookstore in San Francisco had announced it will be closing in March after 85 yea...

Our Discount Books buyers have been scouting for Lincoln books, and the first few are in. Remainders, for any who might not know the booksel...

Opening to an essay called "My Books," I find the following: "Sitting, last winter, among my books, and walled round with all...

As a used books seller, I confess to disliking inscriptions. I've been chastised by family and friends for tipping in a card when giving...

If one is of a certain age, certain promises were made in childhood -- by The Wide World of Disney, filmstrips, and exhibitions at the Stat...

The house has been cleaned.  My beloved is washing, ironing and starching the kitchen curtains as I write this.  There is beer in the garage...

There are two new, well reviewed, biographies of Doctor Samuel "Dictionary" Johnson. This is marvelous news -- if I didn't al...

Vivian Gornick is a wonder. If you've never read her, trust me, she is a marvelous writer; essayist, memoirist, and critic. Her latest b...

There are a number of elegant new titles available this Holiday Season, all perfectly suited to the more strictly rational types on your lis...

As Thanksgiving approaches, it seems a good moment to reflect, and give Thanks for the books we treasure, use, love, remember and or read ag...