April 11, 2018, Filed Under: Books + ManuscriptsParnassus on Wheels On National Bookmobile Day, the American Library Association celebrates the 930 bookmobiles in the United States that provide library services to their communities, an important form of library outreach that has been ongoing for more than 100 years.
March 30, 2018, Filed Under: FilmOn survival and freedom in 1958 America: Mike Wallace and Reinhold Niebuhr In April 1958, the American Broadcast Company (ABC) began a special 13-part series of The Mike Wallace Interview devoted to “discussing the problems of survival and freedom in America.” Wallace’s first guest in the series was Reinhold Niebuhr, who Wallace introduced as “a Protestant minister, one of the most important… read more
April 27, 2017, Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts, Research + TeachingA newly identified work by writer and poet Fenton Johnson In the midst of research for The Greenwich Village Bookshop Door exhibition, my former colleague Molly Schwartzburg alerted me to an unpublished manuscript she had located in the collection of writer and editor Christopher Morley (known today for his novel Parnassus on Wheels and his work on the editorial board… read more
