Aug 7, 2018

Krista Halverson is the director of the newly founded Shakespeare and Company publishing house and the editor of the first-ever history of the bookstore, Shakespeare and Company, Paris: A History of the Rag & Bone Shop of the Heart. Previously, she was the managing editor of Zoetrope: All-Story, a magazine of fiction...

May 4, 2018

Kris Arnett is the proprietor of Kona Bay Books which is located in Kona on the Big Island of Hawaii. She also owns Hilo Bay
Books in, you guessed it, Hilo, which is located on the other side of the Big Island of Hawaii. 

I met with Kris recently at the Kona location to discuss bookstores. Among other things we talk...

Jul 11, 2014

I met with David Mason recently to talk about his memoir The Pope's Bookbinder. As the Biblioasis website wordsmiths have it:

"From his drug-hazy, book-happy years near the Beat Hotel in Paris and throughout his career as antiquarian book dealer, David Mason brings us a storied life. He discovers his love of...

Oct 14, 2013

This from the Yale University Library website: "William Reese '77 is an antiquarian bookseller living in New Haven, CT. His firm, William Reese Company, founded in 1975 when he was a sophomore, is one of the leading rare book dealers in the world, specializing in Americana, travels and voyages, and literature.  He has...

Aug 12, 2013

Rebecca Romney is the Rare Book Expert on Pawn Stars and, former Manager at the Las Vegas Gallery of Bauman Rare Books.

We met in Las Vegas to talk about what she does, why Bauman's is in Las Vegas, her blog, Aldine, Aldus the printer, William Pickering's Aldine poet's series, and collecting fine press books.