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Why Baseball, Books, and the Grateful Dead matter


Michael Dirda

  • Like most book lovers, I enjoy reading books about books. I got Michael Dirda’s book, Browsings: A Year of Reading, Collecting and Living with Books, from the local library here as an ebook. Since one of the points Dirda makes early in the book is how he only reads physical copies of books (never ebooks) Read more

  • The Ones That Get Away

    As book collectors know all too well, we only regret our economies, never our extravagances. ~  Michael Dirda In 1986, I had just moved to St. Paul, was sleeping on a friend’s floor, and looking for work. One day after a job interview in downtown Minneapolis, I wandered into a used bookstore that has been Read more