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Rick Gekoski: finger on the page

Rick Gekoski's regular blog on books and the business of book-buying

20 November 2014

  • The Codex Sinaiticus

    I quit! Why I won’t be finishing my history of the book

    Rick Gekoski: The awkward thing about this subject is that it doesn’t have much to do with reading – so I’m writing a novel instead

14 July 2014

  • Tiny book

    How to get ahead – or at least stay afloat – in the rare book trade

    Rick Gekoski: After three decades in what's not quite a proper job, I don't have any formula for success. But I have had some instructive experience

16 May 2014

  • Kissinger book signed by Henry Kissinger to Tory Cabinet Minister Jonathan Aitken

    Flat signed – a book collecting term which deserves a flat refusal

    Rick Gekoski: I've made my peace with 'login' and am getting used to the ubiquitous 'like', but this bibliophile draws the line at 'flat signed'

20 February 2014

  • Padstow bay

    Mots justes: pick the perfect word in a poem

    When poets get it right individual words can add volumes of sense to their work. Trying to fill in some of their blanks is a useful lesson in this fine art

27 January 2014

  • New chapter … a man reading a book at Ventnor library on the Isle of Wight.

    Real books should be preserved like papyrus scrolls

    Rick Gekoski

    Rick Gekoski: In a future electronic world, there will be a ghastly contingency about the written word. Books have a new place as sacred objects, and libraries as museums

23 December 2013

  • copy of Fifty Shades of Grey

    Fast-food fiction: good or bad for your health?

    Rick Gekoski: We all need a break sometimes, and I'll happily admit to enjoying Harry Potter and Fifty Shades of Grey. But there's one area of my reading I've kept secret until now ...

28 October 2013

  • Pile of books

    Booker prize judges should read everything

    Rick Gekoski: The prize's director thinks many books submitted are 'junk', but that's no reason for the jury not to consider them

17 October 2013

  • William Boyd

    View to a killing: why do collectors pay so much for James Bond first editions?

    Rick Gekoski: Early imprints of the Bond books increase in value every year. Is this just down to a large readership, or does it say something more fundamental about Ian Fleming's creation?

29 August 2013

  • Tom Cruise as Jack Reacher

    Why I love Lee Child's Jack Reacher novels

    Rick Gekoski: For years, I felt guilty about my addiction – then I found some famous kindred spirits. Which is your favourite Reacher thriller?

2 August 2013

  • Book stall

    The Kindle has turned me off paper books

    Rick Gekoski: I'm a rare book dealer, but since getting an e-reader older reading media seem awkward and cumbersome

20 May 2013

  • PEN first edition auction

    Notes on PEN's annotated first edition auction

    Questions answered about this week's sale of acclaimed first editions signed by their authors

28 March 2013

  • Stack of manuscripts

    Writing a book isn't supposed to be fun

    Rick Gekoski: I'm enjoying writing this column, but the grander endeavour of a whole volume does, alas, require more sweat and worry

21 February 2013

  • Oscar Wilde in 1882

    Anything to declare? Oscar Wilde and me in America

    Visiting the US, I am reminded of Oscar Wilde's tour there in 1881, which allowed him to become an orator and a celebrity

11 January 2013

  • TS and Valerie Eliot

    Valerie Eliot remembered

    TS Eliot's widow was no writer herself, but her experience and stories alone establish her literary importance

14 December 2012

  • Woman reading in bed

    In praise of wakefulness

    Rick Gekoski
    Rick Gekoski: I used to find my sleeplessness a cause of distress, but I have recently come to embrace insomnia as a boon to my reading

6 November 2012

  • William Blake

    William Blake brought me face to face with my literary fundamentalism

    Rick Gekoski
    Rick Gekoski: Blake's poem The Tyger shows how the relationship between form and content can shape meaning – a lesson we should heed

4 September 2012

  • 'Losing is what I do' … Todd Martin of the US on his way to defeat at Wimbledon in 2003.

    The books I wish I'd written

    Rick Gekoski

    Rick Gekoski: My two studies of sporting nearly-men – Colin Montgomerie and the lesser lights of tennis – would have allowed me to explore the common reality of living without supreme talent

31 July 2012

  • book signing Rick Gekovski

    On the perks and pitfalls of signing books

    Rick Gekoski
    Rick Gekoski: Book signings are an unmitigated pleasure – except when you're the author of the book that no one has turned up to have signed

5 July 2012

  • Can you teach creative writing

    You can't teach creative writing. Can you?

    Rick Gekoski: Almost everyone can benefit from some simple hints on creative writing. The hardest bit may be to practise what you preach

14 June 2012

  • Victor Gollancz

    The importance of good editing

    Rick Gekoski
    Rick Gekoski: As long as the writer's wishes are taken into account, most manuscripts benefit from a judicious edit
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