Subtext Book Shop

Subtext Book Shop Sub.text is dedicated to the art of offering previously owned books for the casual reader and for the collector of art and books on New Bedford history.

11/05/2014

The papers of Nobel laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Toni Morrison, who is also a former creative writing professor at the University, will now be housed permanently in Firestone Library.

11/03/2014

Bruce Springsteen spoke with the New York Times recently to talk about his favorite books. He said he just finished Herman Melville's Moby Dick and Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Love in the Time of Cholera, while also talking about his old favorites.

10/31/2014

This story comes to you through a partnership between Audubon and BirdNote, a show that airs daily on public radio stations nationwide.

10/30/2014

When Edgar Allan Poe died in October 1849?from mysterious�causes in a Baltimore hospital?

10/30/2014

Sometimes I hate writing. That's not to say I hate the writing of others, though I occasionally do, and that's not to say I hate my own writing, though I often do, but rather that I sometimes hate the commission of the act of writing....

10/29/2014

In these five passages from "Autumnal Tints," Henry David Thoreau celebrates October.

10/29/2014

Where the mysteries come from

10/28/2014

A catalog / catalogue comprising a miscellany of secondhand, used, out-of-print and rare books on Ghosts, Spirits, Hauntings, the Occult, etc.

10/28/2014

Prague – Connue dans le monde entier pour son incroyable complexité, l'administration française se voit attaquer par les héritiers de la famille Kafka. Selon eux, il y a bien trop de similitudes entre l'univers de l'administration et les ouvrages du célèbre auteur tchèque pour que cela soit un simpl…

10/28/2014

This crew list for the whaler Acushnet, filed with the collector of customs in New Bedford, Massachusetts in December, 1840, incudes the name and physical description of the 21-year-old Herman Melville. The list marks the beginning of the epic trip that was to provide the author with material he use…

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