When I was growing up, in a world without television-- not to mention video games and cell phones-- books were very important to me. There was radio too, of course; and I spent dinner hours bent over ...
Publisher’s Weekly recently reported that book sales for the first half of the year are down once again, continuing a trend that has accelerated since the pandemic. As usual, I seem to be out of step.
To the editor: The article by Chris Vognar hit awfully close to home! I have lined too many of the walls in my home with bookcases and filled them with books. When I worked, I would listen to ...
I was already doing research for a story I hoped to write about book hoarding and now seem to have missed the boat, but that's not the only reason I'm irritated by this National Post essay, ...
If you were doomsday prepping for the intellectual life, what would you bring? It wasn’t the recent attacks in Europe that made me start thinking about how I’d pack for the post-apocalypse. That would ...
"But it's not a lifestyle choice, it's a mental health issue." Hoarding was recognised as a complex mental health condition ...