Posts by Colleen:
Those books without indexes
Read The Spectator article here. Read about the book here.
knowledge
| ˈnäləj | noun. facts, information, and skills acquired by a person _____________________________________________
“The foremost finding aid of the physical book”
A symposium at Oxford’s Bodleian Library, June 2017 I for my part venerate the inventor of Indexes, that unknown labourer in literature who first laid open the nerves and arteries of a book. The Bodleian is one of the oldest libraries in Europe, and in Britain is second in size only to the British Library with […]
Books: our resistance to narrow visions
Like a moon to the night, literature disrupts the totalitarian narrative Click here for the New York Times opinion piece by Hisham Matar. _______________________________________
Buffalo’s literary legacy: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was a year and a half old when the family moved to Buffalo. The Fitzgerald family lived at various addresses before returning to St. Paul MN when Scott was 12. Â “Dick opened an office in Buffalo but eventually without success. Nicole did not find out what the trouble was, […]