Descriptionill. ; 28 cm. Contents: Controversy redux [Nicholson Baker] / Nicholas A. Basbanes. Where the spirit wills: one reader's resonance with Thomas Merton's story of his personal odyssey / Roy Meador. This rough magic: Elizabethans and their passion for books / Stephanie Cowell. As you were: rediscovering the Viking Portable Library / Webb C. Howell. The text and subtext of a joker [John Larroquette] / Colleen Sell. The unnamable Samuel Beckett / Daniel Lindley. Portrait of a literary marriage [Sylvia Plath] / Kelley Blewster. Bloody fodder for the pen: one hundred ten years of Jack the Ripper in print / Amy Hanson. People you've never seen, places you've never been / Henry Morris. The fixer [Bernard Harlan] / Larry Tritten. Larry McMurtry's next career / Kathryn Jones. Hot books, cold climates / J. Raymond Edinger, Jr. Incunabula of the digital age / Rye Armstrong. A French connection, old and older autographs, masters of lithography, and military laundry / Ian McKay.