‘Paris Here I Come!’: The Story of a 1950s Guide for Black Travelers

My favorite Paris guidebook is not from Lonely Planet, Wallpaper or Monocle. In fact, I’m sure you have never heard of it. Titled “Paris Here I Come!” and published by…

A Killer’s Archive Is Offered for $80,000. Who Should Profit?

The 65th Annual New York International Antiquarian Book Fair at the Park Avenue Armory in Manhattan this weekend may seem like a maze of musty rarities. But among the first…

Curtis Sittenfeld Goes Home Again

There really was a woman who photocopied her butt at a workplace in the 1980s. Curtis Sittenfeld, 49, heard about the incident when she was a girl and filed it…