R.I.P. Mr. Merker,Dear Utol (2025): Week 8 Highlights Episode 45 and Other News
On the Shelf
Kim Merker’s edition of “Within the Walls,” by Hilda Doolittle. Image via New York Times.
- Kim Merker, who hand-pressed beautiful poetry books for decades, has died, at eighty-one.
- Twenty-five signs you’re addicted to books. (In a whimsical way. Not a My Strange Addictionway.)
- Can you ever really own an e-book? No.
- Which doesn’t mean they aren’t big business at Book Expo America.
- Speaking of BEA … enjoy it from the comfort of your own home!