Arthur Koestler was born in Budapest on the fifth of September, 1905, and by the time he died in London seventy-seven years later he had produced one of the strangest and most consequential literary lives…
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Arthur C. Clarke’s 2001: A Space Odyssey was written in an unusual way—hand in hand with the film it accompanies. Beginning in 1964 from Clarke’s 1948 short story “The Sentinel,” Clarke and director Stanley Kubrick…
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Meet Fox News Channel’s Chief Breaking News Correspondent Trace Gallagher at an exclusive book signing event celebrating the launch of his highly anticipated new book, Turns Out They Were Right All Along: Life Lessons I…
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Few poets reshaped American literature as profoundly as Allen Ginsberg. When his Howl and Other Poems appeared in 1956, it broke open the polished, buttoned-down verse of the era with a raw, chanting, confessional voice…
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Today marks the birthday of Ernest Hemingway – born July 21, 1899, in Oak Park, Illinois. His career reshaped modern prose, and his life unfolded across continents and decades. Over the years, we have handled…
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A book signed by its author is more valuable than the same book unsigned. Most collectors accept this as axiomatic. What fewer collectors fully appreciate is that the signed copy and the association copy are…
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