North America
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Amy Hildreth Chen. Placing Papers: The American Literary Archives Market.
If you are tired of taking acquisition adventures from librarian and bookseller memoirs as proof of the larger trends at play within the literary archives market, this is the book…
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Heather G. Cole and R.W.G. Vail. Theodore Roosevelt: A Descriptive Bibliography.
Heather G. Cole is the Head of Special Collections Instruction and Curator of Literary and Popular Culture Collections at Brown University’s John Hay Library; from 2012 to 2017 she was…
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Howell, Thomas. Soldiers of the Pen: The Writers’ War Board in World War II.
Thomas Howell’s study of the Writers’ War Board (WWB) joins the likes of Janice Radway’s A Feeling for Books on the Book-of-The-Month Club (1997) and the more recent work of…
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Jonathan Senchyne. The Intimacy of Paper in Early and Nineteenth-Century American Literature
As the paper codex is becoming increasingly supplemented, if not yet entirely replaced, by digitally mediated textuality, Jonathan Senchyne redirects our attention to the specific sense of materiality that writers…
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Simone Murray, The Digital Literary Sphere
Simone Murray’s The Digital Literary Sphere has a set of ambitious and interrelated objectives. The book proposes to understand digital writing as the product of an industry that is also…
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Lauren B. Hewes and Kayla Haveles Hopper, eds., Radiant with Color & Art
“What’s the use of an exhibition catalog,” Alice might well have said to herself, “if it doesn’t have beautiful pictures and brilliant essays?” This catalog of the McLoughlin Brothers’ more…
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Carol Porter Grossman, The History of the Limited Editions Club
Every publisher deserves a historian like Carol Porter Grossman. This absorbing book recounts the remarkable story of the Limited Editions Club (LEC) and its offshoots, as well as that of…
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Sara L. Schwebel (ed.) and Scott O’Dell, Island of the Blue Dolphins: The Complete Readers Edition
It’s surprising that one of the most important children’s books of the twentieth century has only recently started receiving the critical attention it deserves. Sara L. Schwebel’s excellent Complete Readers…