Paper: Paging Through History

Review

"Kurlansky’s telling of this history...is swift, crisp, and deft." ― Reid Mitenbuler, The Atlantic"[An] historical journey well worth the ride. [Kurlansky] has a deep instinct for telling detail, which he combines with a disarmingly fun narrative style." ― Los Angeles Times"An historical journey well worth the ride. [Kurlansky] has a deep instinct for telling detail, which he combines with a disarmingly fun narrative style. Kurlansky makes a compelling case that paper has always been a revolutionary force – a foundation for expression of every sort ― and that it is certainly not dead yet." ― Elizabeth Taylor, The National Book Review"Kurlanksy tells [the history of paper] vividly in this compact and well-illustrated book….He has a sharp eye for curious details….[and] offers a versatile introduction to this long and complicated history." ― Anthony Grafton, New York Times Book Review"A beautiful thing to hold and feel, and it presents a fine argument for the retention of paper as an aesthetically lusty object." ― Simon Garfield, The Observer"One learns an awful lot from [Paper], all packaged in Kurlansky’s whipsmart prose." ― John Sutherland, The Times (London)"Littered with amazing facts." ― Lily Rothman, Time magazine

Reid Mitenbuler,

Mark Kurlansky is the New York Times best-selling author of twenty-nine books and a former foreign correspondent for The International Herald Tribune, The Chicago Tribune, The Miami Herald, and The Philadelphia Inquirer. He lives in New York City.