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Honey, Wax, & Women Booksellers in New York

May 13, 2020May 15, 2020 Nigel BealeDestinations

Literary Tourist in New York: Day 3 The train-ride down to Brooklyn took about 20 minutes. There was a well-stocked grocery store on the corner[…]

Grolier, Koch, Kidd, Horowitz, Budman & Oklahoma!

April 2, 2020April 3, 2020 Nigel BealeDestinations

Literary Tourist in New York – Day 2 Next morning I headed over, on the overhead ‘subway,’ to the Grolier Club to take in the[…]

Ben & Jerry’s to the Big Apple, Steven Heller & Sonny Mehta

March 6, 2020March 8, 2020 Nigel BealeNew York

Literary Tourist in New York City: Day 1 Throw together some Fall foliage and a few vats of ice-cream and you’re bound to attract a[…]

Toronto Book Sales & Politics, Conan Doyle & Ghosting

January 22, 2020March 30, 2020 Nigel BealeCanada

Literary Tourist in Toronto It required some juggling – lining up the cheap train tickets to coincide with the University of Toronto Victoria and St.[…]

Kingston & collecting Elizabethan histories, & Canadian fine press printing

December 26, 2019March 3, 2020 Nigel BealeCanada

Literary Tourist in Kingston, Ontario and environs I couldn’t tell at the time. He looked pretty fresh to me. But, as I later learned, the[…]

Albany for the Writers, Cooperstown for the Books

December 5, 2019February 26, 2020 Nigel BealeAlbany

Literary Tourist in upstate New York I ‘d been browsing Francine Prose’s book Reading Like a Writer with some pleasure, and noticed, after conducting one[…]