I joined a few dozen lucky book lovers last night at Ken Sanders Rare Books near downtown Salt Lake City to meet and hear a lecture by "bibliophiliac" and well-known author of books on books, Nicholas Basbanes.
He was in town to talk about his newest book, ON PAPER: The Everything of Its Two-thousand Year History.
Nick said himself that he considered this his "best" book so far. Personally, I would put it on even par with his first book, A Gentle Madness, but his 8-year journey of discovery all over the world to research this book and the final results ARE a real tour de force, so he just may be right that it is his best.
Buy it, read it. If you care about paper AT ALL, you will love it.
Anyway, I was honored to meet Nick at Melissa Sanders' lovely shop, Red Queen Book Arts (just around the corner from her dad Ken's store), a few minutes before he was scheduled to begin speaking at Ken Sanders' shop. Nick was gracious to chat a bit and sign my personal copy of On Paper.
Later he gave a spirited, informative and delightful lecture with excellent slides to a rapt audience at Ken's.
Above is a blurry shot I took of the man himself tirelessly signing stacks of books for stacks of people afterward. Well played, sir!
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