Thanks! To chime in on the historical, I love how Thoreau sent a Scarlet Oak leaf to Ticknor & Fields--"the smallest one in my collection"--to insert "a faithful outline engraving of the leaf bristles & all" about page 57 of his book, above the words: "'The original of the leaf on the opposite page was picked from such a pile.'" Their relationship must have encouraged Thoreau's famed commitment to his books' material design. So beats the images on Chipotle menus ...
This is fascinating. There was a bookstore in that location for a long time, but they closed a few years before the pandemic. Sad to see a Chipotle in its place!
Posts like this wreak havoc with my screen time numbers ... but also keep me out of the halls of Facebook and Twitter. Having, like many of us, fallen in love with Maxwell Perkins in my younger years and having a publisher go bankrupt on me in mid first-book, I am fascinated by the history of publishing ... thanks for the stories. gratitudemojo.substack.com
So many layers you were able to get into this short tale, all wonderful! Thanks for taking the time to go down that rabbit hole and then come back and tell us what you found.
This is good history! I find myself interested in learning more about Fields, about publishers, about whether or not that Chipotle would cheat me out of salad greens like the ones around here...
Thanks! To chime in on the historical, I love how Thoreau sent a Scarlet Oak leaf to Ticknor & Fields--"the smallest one in my collection"--to insert "a faithful outline engraving of the leaf bristles & all" about page 57 of his book, above the words: "'The original of the leaf on the opposite page was picked from such a pile.'" Their relationship must have encouraged Thoreau's famed commitment to his books' material design. So beats the images on Chipotle menus ...
This is fascinating. There was a bookstore in that location for a long time, but they closed a few years before the pandemic. Sad to see a Chipotle in its place!
Posts like this wreak havoc with my screen time numbers ... but also keep me out of the halls of Facebook and Twitter. Having, like many of us, fallen in love with Maxwell Perkins in my younger years and having a publisher go bankrupt on me in mid first-book, I am fascinated by the history of publishing ... thanks for the stories. gratitudemojo.substack.com
So many layers you were able to get into this short tale, all wonderful! Thanks for taking the time to go down that rabbit hole and then come back and tell us what you found.
This is good history! I find myself interested in learning more about Fields, about publishers, about whether or not that Chipotle would cheat me out of salad greens like the ones around here...