Goatskin, Tree Bark, and One Expensive Scribe: How “The King of the World’s Booksellers” Produced Manuscripts

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Ross King on the Laborious Process of Bookmaking in the 15th Century

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Watch Kathy Acker read from <em>The Adult Life of Toulouse Lautrec</em>.

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Andrea Pitzer on the Heroic—and Horrific—Arctic Voyages of William Barents

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How Nellie Y. McKay Forged a Path for the Study of African American Literature

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