How to care for old or valuable books.

On grammar pedantry, and how it diminishes the work that editors do.

Dirda’s haul had become unwieldy. ‘At this point, I get a box,’ he said, and then disappeared around the corner, leaving me amid the walls of neon fonts and cartoon rayguns. When he returned he held up the old cardboard and explained, sage-like, ‘Always get one with handles.’ Book shopping with the best-read man in America.