Come celebrate the 85th birthday of Jimmy Carter, the 39th President of the United States, with Veryfinebooks on Thursday, October 1st!
Though Jimmy Carter eventually rose to the highest post in America, he began his career as a simple peanut farmer. Service to his country started in the US Navy and took him quite far from [...]
A signed first edition of Vonnegut’s most important work, Slaughterhouse-Five, has sold recently for $7,500. Vonnegut was a prolific, genre-bending author and demand for signed editions of his works will probably not decrease. Slaughterhouse-Five is the great anti-war science fiction novel dealing with the World War II experiences and journeys through time of a soldier [...]
Last week I had the unique opportunity of interviewing Hans-Ake Lija. As many of you know, he is the founder of the most viewed on-line Stephen King fan based website, Lilja’s Library. For over 10 years now, he has brought us the latest breaking news from the Stephen King universe. Stephen King’s official website has [...]
In an interview for the upcoming issue of the New York Times magazine, Obama said he’s grown tired of briefing books and has been spending his time reading “Netherland”, a Joseph O’Neill’s 2008 novel. “Netherland” is a highly praised novel about living in a post 9/11 world and covers the topic of marriage and also [...]
A book stolen by a Civil War soldier has been returned to Virginia’s Washington and Lee University, 145 years after he pilfered it. The University waived the overdue book fee, which at a dollar a day, would have totaled over $52,000.
The books are called “History in the War of the Peninsula and in the [...]
It appears that Stephen King is not too much of a Stephanie Meyer (“Twilight”) fan. He recently did an interview with USA Weekend, where he compared Meyer to J.K. Rowling, the Harry Potter author.
He said: “Both Rowling and Meyer, they’re speaking directly to young people… The real difference is that Jo Rowling is a terrific [...]
Get Super Bowl 2009 Tickets (Steelers vs. Cardinals)
In the spirit of Superbowl weekend, we have gathered a collection of what is perhaps the most highly regarded and recommended Superbowl books and DVDs you will find anywhere. Some of these are even collector editions that would make a great gift for the Superbowl fan and enthusiast.
In [...]
John Updike, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, prolific man of letters and erudite chronicler of sex, divorce and other adventures in the postwar prime of the American empire, died Tuesday at age 76. Updike passed away Tuesday morning after battling lung cancer.
“He was one of our greatest writers, and he will be sorely missed,” [...]
How to Organize & Display a Book Collection : Earthquake Safety for Book Collections
A short video that describes how to properly secure your book cases if you happen to live in an earthquake zone. If you have an expensive collection, this might be also be useful, as an earthquake can happen anywhere. The video is [...]
Did you ever want to know what Barack Obama’s favorite books are? Back in October of 2008, The New York Times asked him to provide a list of some of his most favorite books. Here it is:
Ralph Waldo by Emerson
Thomas Jefferson
Mark Twain
Abraham Lincoln
James Baldwin
W. E. B. DuBois’ Souls of Black Folk
Martin Luther King’s Letter From [...]
