Boston Book Festival

October 17-19, 2013

2012 Presenters

Leah Price

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Leah Price is a professor of English and the chair of the History and Literature program at Harvard University. Additionally, Price is the Humanities Program Director at the Radcliffe Institute. Price is the author of The Anthology and Rise of the Novel, Literacy Secretaries/Secretarial Culture, and Unpacking My Library, and she as edited with Seth Lerer a special PMLA issue on The History of the Book and the Idea of Literature. Price's newest book is How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain. Price writes for the Boston Globe, the New York Times Book Review, and the London Review of Books.

Links:

"The Subconscious Shelf:" An Essay by Leah Pric

The National Post reviews How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain

The Boston Globe reviews Unpacking My Library 

 


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