Essays & Observations

The observations expressed here are incidental, occasional, and personal. They represent the particular thoughts of a particular person on a particular subject at a particular time. They are not necessarily concerned with books and the book business; inevitably other subjects will distract us; but whatever the subject, we hope that the ruminations you find here will be more like Andrew Marvell’s “green thought in a green shade” than T. S. Eliot’s “thoughts of a dry brain in a dry season.”

ESSAYS BY JAMES JAFFE

• November 10, 2008 My father was a reader
• April 14, 2008 Charles Vallely. With warm regard. R. I. P.
• March 23, 2008 Jonathan Williams, March 8, 1929 – March 16, 2008
• June 24, 2007 By Default
• June 23, 2007 Lost inTranslation
• May 9, 2007 Dear Prudence
• March 13, 2007 Know Your Bookseller