Editions & Impressions: Twenty Years on the Book Beat

Twenty Years on the Book Beat collects thirty-three of Nicholas Basbanes' most engaging articles grouped into three sections: Book Culture; People; and Places.

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Basbanes writes passionately about bibliomania, bibliokleptomania, and biblioclasms, as well as book people like Otto Bettmann, Tom Wolfe, Michael Zinnman, and others.

He travels the world, visiting and reporting on libraries in Sweden, Germany, Iraq, and New York.