April 16, 2018

Another mystery out of the UK last week: From Hannah Butler at the BBC comes a story out of Anglesey, Wales about a collection of rare, nineteenth-century books unexpectedly found in a home police… Read more »

Crime

Reformed gang member killed outside his book launch — Michael Barron
Tundra pressure: Antarctic scientist turns on colleague who kept revealing book endings — Tom Clayton
Synthetic DNA technology could help protect rare books — Ryan Harrington
Magna Carta caper thwarted — Ryan Harrington

2019 will be a big year for works entering the public domain

Ryan Harrington

Mickey Mouse is a powerful political figure in this country. Year after year his name appears as a write-in candidate in electoral returns. He (well, he and his crack legal team)… Read more »

“This suffering world is mine”: Sam Hamill, poet, translator, and publisher, has died

Ian Dreiblatt

Sad news from the northwest, where the beloved Sam Hamill—poet, translator, and co-founding editor of Copper Canyon Press, has died at his home in Washington. He would have turned seventy-five in a few… Read more »

Hey, check out this 1988 TV segment on Let Us Now Praise Famous Men

Melville House

Hey, check out this 1988 TV segment on Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, the 1941 work on tenant cotton farmers that made James Agee a household name. Readings from Agee’s work… Read more »

Melville House Books

Rare nineteenth-century books unexpectedly found during a police investigation

Stephanie DeLuca