Just back from a wonderful stay at Bibliocamp for Grownups, better known as Rare Book School, at the University of Virginia, where for five weeks each summer people from all reaches of the book world -- librarians, scholars, academics, booksellers, private collectors, conservators, binders, fine-press printers, bibliographers, yes, even writers like myself -- come for an intensive five days of total immersion in a broad selection of courses taught by a veritable Dream Team of experts. Is this place fabulous, or what? Has there ever been anything else remotely like it? A great time, really, and thanks once again to the visionary director there, Michael Suarez, S. J., for inviting me down to speak this past Monday in the Auditorium of the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, and to the many people who came to the talk. I have never, in my life, I swear, been treated to a warmer reception. (And how about that dedicated soul with five of my books to sign who drove all the way in from Pittsburgh just for the talk? Im gently mad, I guess, he said, and that pretty much says it all.) rarebookschool.org/
Posted on: Sat, 02 Aug 2014 13:26:58 +0000