The Theodore Roethke Musuem in Saginaw, Michigan is planning a celebration of the 75th anniversary...
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Victor Hugo’s Plea for the Poor
As anyone who has read or seen Les Misérables will know, a country’s poor are roughly treated and...
2nd Annual Soup Showdown Honors Willa Cather, Warms Community
Soup fosters a good story, and was an integral narrative element for Pulitzer-Prize winning writer...
Rare Finds: Well, Are You Coming? 30 Years of The Polar Express
On November 19, 2015, author Chris Van Allsburg pulled into the Great Hall in Chicago’s Union...
Germaine Greer’s 30,000-Word Love Letter to Martin Amis
While waiting for her airplane at London’s Heathrow Airport in 1976, Germaine Greer began penning a...
Fanny Kemble’s Manuscript Cookbook
It’s here: Rare Book Week Boston. So all week on the blog of Fine Books & Collections, we’ll be...
Jackie Kennedy Fashion Archive Goes to Auction
Coming to auction later this month at Doyle New York is a remarkable collection of designs...
89 Years of Winnie-the-Pooh
Winnie the Pooh, the first in a series of children’s books about the eponymous toy bear and other...
The Big Three: FDR, Churchill, and … Longfellow?
In a letter dated January 20, 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt waxed poetic with British Prime...
Marion Post Wolcott Images at Auction
A stunning, Depression-era bathing beauty graced the cover of the Fine Books & Collections...