THE BOOK GUYS

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0819- 5-8-08- William Safire discusses Safire's Political Dictionary....TO BE SEEN ON C-SPAN

0818- 5-1-08- George Johnson and The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments....

0817- 4-24-08- Isamu Fukui, teen-aged author of Truancy and Scott Brown of Fine Books and Collections on the top 50 auction books of 2007..

0816- 4-17-08- Week #2 of our opening of the Arkansas Literary Festival....

0815- 4-10-08- Week #1 of two weeks from the Arkansas Literary Festival in Little Rock...

0814- 4-03-08- Lawrence Samuel and The End of the Innocence: The New York World's Fair of 1965-1965...

0813-3-27-08- BOOK GUYS CLASSIC- Sportswriter Christine Brennan on her life and career in a man's world...

0812-3-20-08- BOOK GUYS CLASSIC- Francine Prose, teacher and author of Read Like a Writer...

0811- 3-13-08- BOOK GUYS CLASSIC- Kate Mosse, author of Labyrinth and originator of the Orange Prize...

0810- 3-06-08- Don McElrath, the Curator of Marylandia and Rare Books at the University of Maryland Library, discusses a new exhibit The Well-Dressed Book, on 19th and 20th century cloth bindings...

0809- 2-28-08- Jon Sczieska, the new National Ambassador for Young People's Literature and John Cole from the Center for the Book discuss literature and reading

0808- 2-21-08- Jessa Crispin, chief of the "Blog of a Bookslut," discusses her popular literary blog and the book world in general...

0807- 2-14-08- Colin Grant discusses the life and times of Marcus Garvey, founder of a rival group to the NAACP in the early part of the 20th century

0806- 2-07-08- Stephen Budiansky discusses his book The Bloody Shirt, an account of the terrorism in the South during Reconstruction that eliminated democratic government there for over a century..

0805- 1-31-08- Nina Burleigh on Napoleon's attempt to conquer Egypt and the beginnings of archaeology in Mirage...

0804- 1-24-08- Geraldine Brooks discusses the fictional conservation of a famous book, the Sarajevo Haggaddah and her novel People of the Book

0803- 1-17-08- Vincent Varga discusses Cartographia: Mapping Civilization, with maps from the Library of Congress...

0802- 1-10-08- Bernie Jankowski and Ed Ramsburg discuss their collaboration on Luminous Mud, poems and paintings...

0801- 1-3-08- Elise Paschen and Rebekah Presson Mosby- Poetry Speaks Expanded-- we hear the voices of Whitman and Tennyson, among others, reading their own works...

0752- 12-27-07- Mark Dimunation and Robert Jackson discuss the Fellowship of American Bibliographic Societies...

0751- 12-20-07- Gillian Blake, Executive Editor of Bloomsbury Press, discusses her job, her choices and the future of the book...

0750- 12-13-07- Paul Dickson and listeners share Family Words, words coined by families for unique objects and situations..

0749- 12-6-07- Lucian Polastron discusses his book Books on Fire and the destruction of books through the centuries...

0748- 11-29-07- Michael Long discusses First Class Citizenship: The Civil Rights Letters of Jackie Robinson, written mostly after his storied baseball career

0747- 11-22-07- Peter Duffy discusses The Killing of Major Denis Mahon, his study of the assassination in 1847 of a prominent Protestant landlord in Ireland during the Potato Famine....

0746- 11-15-07- Mark Dimunation, Arthur Dunkelman and John Carlson discuss the Jay Kislak Collection of the History of the Americas, about to go on exhibit at the Library of Congress......

0745- 11-08-07- David Friedman and his work, The Immortalists--the story of the search for immortality by Charles Lindbergh and Dr. Alexis Carrel..

0744- 11-01-07- Paul Dickosn on the impact of Sputnik on its 50th anniversary...

0743- 10-25-07- Michael Dirda looks at Classics for Pleasure--lesser known "good reads" for every taste...

0742- 10-18-07- The second of two shows at the Oak Knoll Bookfest XIV in New Castle, Delaware, featuring the incomparable Henry Morris, 50 years in the business of making fine books...

0741- 10-11-07- The first of two shows of interviews with outstanding fine book printers and makers from around the world, as gathered at Bookfest XIV in New Castle, Delaware... See "Selected Sites" for links to each of the interview subjects and their companies

0740- 10-04-07- The winners of the Fine Books and Collections 2007 Collegiate Collecting Competition...

0739- 9-27-07- Bruce Watson on the Sacco and Vanzetti case, a landmark in American legal history...

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