The Book-Makers: A History of the Book in Eighteen Lives Poetry_Gift_Guide So I took a one-way

So I took a one-way ticket to the desert and wrote this book: an album

Exile in Bookville

the perspective of people who live in economically disadvantaged black communities is largely absent from the commentary of many top intellectuals who speak and write about race

And white Americans can begin making reparations for slavery and the century of racial discrimination that followed with monetary restitution

they could be those rare literary soulmates who never fall prey to their demons

The Book-Makers: A History of the Book in Eighteen Lives Poetry_Gift_Guide So I took a one-wayAn Economist Book of the Year A five hundred year history of printed books, told through the people who created them. "Almost every page almost every paragraph fizzes with facts, allusions, speculations, tidbits of etymology and gems of historical interest." Wall Street Journal Books have transformed humankind, yet we know little about the individuals who brought these fascinating objects into existence. Who were these renegade book makers who changed