Now and then, the coolest things show up in your inbox. Like the email from Lauren Dolman of the Balliol College Library at Oxford, who had kindly replied to my query about a bookplate last year. (Here I go citing myself again, but if you’re interested in finding out about that, look here.) Lauren was […]
What They Read at Byrdcliffe: There and Back Again
So very privileged to record a sneak peek of She-Empress of Mu, the second of my Watson & Doyle novels, in which #KnivesOut meets #SiliconValley. Thank you so much Brent Robison, Tom Newton, and The Strange Recital. Everyone else, please go check out to the podcast at http://thestrangerecital.libsyn.com/the-she-empress-vanishes. It’s free, and trust me, it’s a
The Strange Recital: The She-Empress Vanishes
In addition, to Candace Wheeler’s How to Make Rugs, the Byrdcliffe Library also contained a copy of her privately published Annals of Onteora, which details how she created an Arts Colony in Tannersville frequented by such distinguished guests as Mark Twain, Mary Mapes Dodge, and Maude Adams, the actress for whom J.M. Barrie created the
What They Read at Byrdcliffe: Candace Wheeler and the Annals of Onteora
Ticetonyk was also the home of the great estate of one of New York’s most prominent self-made millionaires: Richard Hellmann – of yes, that Hellmann fame. The venture currently known as the Onteora Mountain House was once the summer retreat of an immigrant who parlayed his marriage to the daughter of a New York City delicatessen owner into a condiment empire that sold his ready-made mayonnaise at first in bulk to other stores, and then to consumers, in clear glass jars that could be reused for home canning at the cost of a 1 cent rubber rung. So successful was the venture that Hellmann was the author of not one, but two, invaluable handbooks. Yes, the second one does appear to be the shape of a jar of mayonnaise.
What I Hope They Never Read at Byrdcliffe
Suddenly, September looks packed! (Past event) Sept. 7, 4PM “Why Write Mystery?” Panel with Alison Gaylin and Carol Goodman at The Golden Notebook, Woodstock, NY. Sept. 14 All day. Join me and other Woodstock writers at Book Day at the Woodstock Mower’s Saturday/Sunday Flea Market. 11 Maple Lane, Woodstock, NY 12498 Sept. 15 6-9PM Noir
And behold my birthday surprise from George! Three lovely books, all with Byrdcliffe bookplates. First up, a first edition of How to Make Rugs, by Candace Wheeler. Candace Wheeler was the dean of American interior design, a partner of Louis Comfort Tiffany, in Tiffany and Wheeler, whose most prestigious assignments included the Veterans’ Room of
What they Read at Byrdcliffe: Happy Birthday to Me!
The Horseman’s Word is now available for sale at Amazon (paperback or eBook), Barnes & Noble (both), and Encircle Publication (paperback), as well as your local Indie bookstore.
So, so far my giddy book tour consists of three events, and I’d love it if you would join me at one. I’ll be reading and signing copies of The Horseman’s Word at: Wed., August 14 at 7 pm. Northshire Books, Saratoga Springs, NY. More information at https://www.northshire.com/northshire-bookstore-saratoga Saturday, September 7, at 4 pm. WITH
My own journey collecting items from the Byrdcliffe library began when I found a leather-bound set of Dryden offered on the web, complete with Byrdcliffe bookplate. Which immediately created a mystery. How could a set whose title paged clearly stated that it was published in 1821 find itself in the collection of a collector who
What They Read at Byrdcliffe — or Of Research And Rabbit Holes II
by Jo Walton Superlatively imaginative (This review originally appeared on the New York Journal of Books) The cover copy of Jo Walton’s Lent promises that it is “a historical fantasy thriller set in Renaissance Florence and in Hell.” And in fact this latest novel from the extraordinary talented and erudite Jo Walton is nothing less.