BIBLIOPHILIC TASTING NOTES – PART 2

1. Here’s a fascinating tidbit I just ran across in a review of Michael D. Gordin’s “Einstein in Bohemia” (Princeton): “On May 24, 1911, Einstein gave a brief talk on his theory of relativity to a gathering of germanophobe intellectuals that met at the home of Berta Fanta (‘an erudite, philosophically ambitious, and well-connected woman’), […]

What Tom Wolfe Means to Me

––––In honor of the second anniversary of Tom Wolfe’s death: May 14, 2018–––– Note: This is a blog post from a guest contributor – a long-time collector of many subjects. He would like to remain anonymous, but so you may recognize future posts by him, we’ll call him “Prospero”. I was inspired to write this […]