Category Archives: publishing

  1. Murders, Measuers, and MSG

    Leave a comment

    March 31, 2020 by libroshombre

    Shakespeare wrote in “Titus Andronicus” that “Sorrow concealèd, like an oven stopped,/ Doth burn the heart to cinders where it …
    Continue reading

    Category: books, food, mistakes, mysteries, publishing, theater, Uncategorized | Tags: , , , ,

  2. Gilgamesh, Co-op Fees, and Comfy Libraries

    Leave a comment

    November 19, 2019 by libroshombre

    Ancient epic literature appeals most when it reveals how people long ago lived their daily lives and how they thought. …
    Continue reading

    Category: bookstores, libraries, oral tradition, public libraries, publishing, Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , , ,

  3. Publishers, Malarkey, and Project Gutenberg

    Leave a comment

    March 24, 2017 by libroshombre

      “Malarky!” was one of my father’s favorite epithets for things he deemed phony or exaggerated. I heard it all …
    Continue reading

    Category: publishing, sayings, Uncategorized, word origins | Tags: , , ,

  4. Essays, Agnotology, and Ignorance

    Leave a comment

    February 8, 2016 by libroshombre

      I’ve been thinking about Michel Montaigne, the 16th century writer, wine grower, and counselor to kings, even more than …
    Continue reading

    Category: books, essay, Michel Montaigne, print, publishing, Uncategorized | Tags: , , ,

Archives