Red Cloud, NE to Omaha, NE
What came down had to go back up. We returned from Red Cloud to the Interstate via Hastings, passing a Pony Express Road on the way. We drove by Valentino’s…
Read More Denver to Hastings, NE to Red Cloud, NE
East of Denver, more of the same. Interstate lanes, buttes and rises and hillocks smoothed by mighty earthmoving equipment to create the Eisenhower Interstate System, alongside which not a living…
Read More Santa Monica to Denver in Pictures
Already intent, and not even out of Santa Monica An island of calm For those of you who find this blog and are seeking to evaluate…
Read More Days 1 and 2
We finally left Santa Monica on the eastward journey (on the Christopher Columbus transcontinental highway) as the rain started falling on the windshield of the Dodge Grand Caravan. The storm…
Read More The Book Tour 2009
Happy Columbus Day! One day out of the year which would seem to be a harbinger of a successful journey (though perhaps not success in arriving at the destination you…
Read More book launch party and book signing
According to one of the attendees at the book launch party for A JOURNEY THROUGH LITERARY AMERICA, there are over 120 publishers in Santa Barbara. On 10/10/09, it was one…
Read More Santa Barbara Independent
America’s Places in Literature It’s the Journey, and It Is the Destination Maybe it’s these “tough economic times” we keep hearing about, or Ken Burns’s latest documentary on our country’s…
Read More 14 Days and counting
I have visited Salt Lake City several times. When you get on the Interstate near the airport and head East towards Salt Lake City, you see “Cheyenne, Wyoming” on large…
Read More 15 days and counting
Herd to believe,but in 15 days the booksigning at Santa Barbara’s Chaucer’s Books will be behind us and we (my wife, my son, and I) will be taking to the…
Read More The Advance Copy (and Errata)
Yesterday I couldn’t write about what it felt like to hold the finished book in my hands. The experience was too fresh. Robert Frost said that he always wrote in…
Read More Thomas Wolfe: In Memoriam
Again a nod to Today in Literature: on this day, Thomas Wolfe passed away from tuberculosis that had been lurking in his body since he was a boy. He was…
Read More The Significance of September 14
If you have not visited Steve King’s Today in Literature, by all means you should. Just click on this link. http://www.todayinliterature.com/ Today happens to be: 1) the day John Gardner,…
Read More Memory believes before knowing remembers. (Faulkner)
I am now reading a book I picked up many years ago called New Burlington. It caught my eye because I am from a Burlington—Burlington, Vermont. But this book was…
Read More Printing is Finished
Just last week, I came across an e-mail from Tamra from September 1, 2007. It read:”We officially hit the road.” That was the day Tamra and Jacob, and their dog,…
Read More Elaine Kendall
Elegantly illustrated and written from a unique historical perspective, A Journey Through Literary America reacquaints the reader with the writers who established and continued our literary tradition. Beginning with Washington…
Read More On the Occasion of Ted Williams's Birthday
Today, August 30, is the 91st anniversary of Ted Williams’s birth. After his last game, John Updike, dilettante sportswriter who happened to be present, penned a tribute. Great ballplayer met…
Read More The Greatest Project I Ever Worked On (As a Printer)
I inherited the estimate from the soon-to-be departing production assistant, Angela. It was a quote for 10,000 copies and about $100,000. Not small potatoes. The client name was Control Bureau.…
Read More New England Independent Booksellers Assoc. Trade Show
Please look for Val de Grâce Books at the New England Independent Booksellers Association trade show, October 2 and 3. We will be exhibiting the book, of course, as well…
Read More Ayn Rand and the Ardor of Reading
Yesterday we were having lunch at La Bottega Marino, on the Westside. It is an intimate place, with small round marble-topped tables grouped close together, perfect for overhearing conversations. At…
Read More Progress on the Book
The interior pages of the book have now been approved for printing. What remain to be approved are only the jacket and the sample of the foil stamping on the…
Read More Buckeye Book Fair
We have been invited to exhibit at the Buckeye Book Fair in Wooster, Ohio, on November 7, 2009. Please look for A Journey Through Literary America in the program for this all-day…
Read More Blue Highways
It is now August 12th. In less than two months, my wife and son and I will be hitting the road in a one-way Budget SUV rental, headed from Santa…
Read More It's a wrap! (Except for the wrap)
Yesterday, we approved the last remaining proofs: a photograph of Leadville, Colorado, a photo of “The Last Good Country” from upper Michigan, The Wayside in Concord—home to many Concord luminaries—and…
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