Finger Pointing

by | Feb 6, 2009 | Valley Locavore

At the farmer baker conference a man with a feed hat sitting next to me cried out, “please, just tell me how much flour you guys need?” His right hand was poised over the paper, waiting for an answer. On the index finger were a ring of fresh...

Chronicling the History of the Book as Object

by | Feb 6, 2009 | The Public Humanist

Commentators, friend and foe, have made much of Barack Obama’s calculated appropriation of the legacy of Lincoln. What most struck me, as a book historian, was his decision to take the inaugural oath on the bible that Lincoln used in 1861.In the Senate Chamber,...