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I don’t know about anyone else, but over the course of the last year I’ve found myself indulging in nostalgia more than usual (for me, […]

Cult movies. We all love a few of ’em, right? Whether your tastes run towards the granddaddy of folk horror movies, sweet transvestites from Transylvania, […]

I’ll confess: Valentine’s Day has never been my favorite holiday; as many of you may already know, I’m (ahem) somewhat more partial to Halloween. But […]

It’s February, which means it’s Black History Month. In honor of that celebration, we’d like to share a few titles from our shelves. While we […]

Like many others, I’ve gained some interesting new habits during the almost-a-year-now of the pandemic. During my March-to-May furlough of last year, I developed an […]

Since The Queen’s Gambit started airing on Netflix last October, we’ve been inundated with requests for chess books (and for books by author Walter Tevis, […]

A while back, I wrote a post about some of the odd physical objects we’ve found in books, ranging from (ahem) revealing photographs to marijuana […]

In October, we were devastated to discover one morning that a significant part of our beautiful mural had been vandalized. A week later, it happened […]

I occasionally hear one of my bibliophile friends disparage decorators. “Oh, they only want green books,” they’ll say as they sneer and drip contempt. I […]