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

April 2, 2020April 2, 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[…]

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[…]

A SHARP Conference in Amherst, MA.

November 10, 2019February 25, 2020 Nigel BealeAmherst

UMass, Amherst. Weather? Sweltering Literary Tourist in Massachusetts So I’d heard of SHARP, The Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing. I knew[…]