Mapping the Bookstore: Retail Cartographies in Antebellum Manhattan

  Kristen Highland, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of English, New York University March 25, 2014 (Tuesday) Butler Library, Room, 523, at 6:00 PM The romanticization of the independent bookstore—haven of booklovers, erudite employees, and serendipitous discovery—obscures the historical reality of selling books—rapid turnover, failure, and looming bottom lines. But bookstores are also more than the sum […]

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On Display @ Kunming City Museum: Barney Rosset, Publisher-Hero as Combat Photographer in China

Columbia University Libraries/Information Services’ (CUL/IS) Rare Book & Manuscript Library (RBML) is pleased to announce the opening of Barney Rosset, Publisher-hero as Combat Photographer in China, an exhibition at Kunming City Museum, in Kunming City, Yunnan, China, which features a collection of RBML’s photographs of China from World War II by Grove Street Press publisher […]

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Rare Book & Manuscript Library Acquires Archive of Russian Émigré Poet Lev Loseff

Columbia University Libraries/Information Services’ (CUL/IS) Rare Book & Manuscript Library (RBML) is pleased to announce the acquisition of the papers of Lev Loseff (1937-2009), noted Russian émigré poet, literary critic, professor of Russian Literature at Dartmouth College, and a lifelong friend and authoritative biographer of Nobel Prize Laureate Joseph Brodsky (1940-1996).   Brodsky & Loseff. […]

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“Obscene” – Wednesday, February 19, 7:00 PM

  A screening of Obscene, a documentary about publisher Barney Rosset Introduced by the film’s co-director, Daniel O’Connor Chang Room, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University  Followed by a reception at the Rare Book and Manuscript Library   […]

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RBML Acquires Kitchen Sink Press Archive

Columbia University Libraries/Information Services’ Rare Book & Manuscript Library (RBML) is pleased to announce the acquisition of the Kitchen Sink Press (KSP) archive, publisher of underground comics between 1969 and 1999 under comics artist, historian and publisher Denis Kitchen. KSP published many of the most important names in comics history, which are represented in the […]

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