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The Soul of the American Road
When a whisper of a dream catches your heart, it’s time to go. The “virus of restlessness” fires that intangible magic that keeps the American road alive. We survey some of the immortal works, both classic and new, that deal with wanderlust.
Simon Winchester: The Man
with the Grasshopper Mind
Winchester’s books are a wonderful mix or reportage, history, biography and science. His subjects range from the troubles in Northern Ireland to the history of the Oxford English Dictionary to the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906.
Portrait of an Innovative Collector
If you have ever written to an author asking permission to send a book to be autographed, you are following along in a tradition that may have begun in the late Nineteenth century with an extraordinary book collector from Cleveland named Paul Lemperly.
Ten Years Ago
Tim O’Brien
Books into Film
The Lost Weekend