In the News: Poker’s Provenance, Modern-Day Scribes

“Cowboys Full: The Story of Poker” chronicles the game’s unique relationship to America.

Visit your local independent shop today, National Bookstore Day.

Neanderthals weren’t as stupid as we think.

A tech-crazy world still has room for scribes.

Would the time you spent reading Proust have been better spent “visiting a demented relative”?

Bram Stoker shares a birthday with the Dracula-like Vlad the Impaler.

The first dust jacket was introduced in 1830.

Posted on Nov 9th, 2009 by Ian Crouch in Bram Stoker, In the News, Neanderthals, Proust, Vlad the Impaler, bookstores, dust jacket, memoir, poker, scribes