When a person enters the United States, there are forms to fill in. The Customs Declaration is available in a number of languages, including Chinese. I was intrigued to notice that it now asks for birthdate in the international, and logical (small to large unit), order: day/month/year. Capitulation on the part of the U.S. government to
I had a tearful moment the other night, stepping off the 38 bus at the bottom of John Street and realizing that that would probably be the last time I rode on a Routemaster. They are being replaced with "bendy buses" and London won't be quite the same when they are gone. But I've just discovered,
I have long known about foreign rights, because my very first book, Home Ecology, was sold to a U.S. publisher in 1990, and that's part of how I came to return to the States. But only now am I beginning to grasp the scope, and importance, of rights. The whole Frankfurt Book Fair--a truly enormous event,
I am writing this at the Frankfurt West train station and will post it when I get back to the hotel, in Bad Homburg. Iv'e just come from the Chinese Publishing Delegation party at the Marriott Hotel. I mentioned in my last newsletter that visiting the Chinese publishers was one of the key things I planned
Here's a photo that shows our one metre on space at Frankfurt. Enough for current titles, but we'll see about next year!
Things have gone remarkably smoothly, considering the fact that I was in such a flurry before I left that I had my flight time wrong by two hours (fortunately, it was later than I thought). Frankfurt is a huge trade fair, but the American Collective Stand booths have a cozy feel, to my surprise. Our mere
I'm at City Airport far out in the Docklands of East London, waiting for a plane to Frankfurt. I had a very expensive tour of the sights today, having been booked to fly into Heathrow and then out of City Airport. No connecting services at all, so it was train to Paddington then a long taxi
David and I flew to Iowa just over a week ago to see our son Tom, who has just started college there. To my surprise and pleasure, he has decided to get involved with the campus garden, and says he has blistered hands today from digging over some of the beds. I imagine that college gardens
Howard (Skip) Knuttgen is editor in chief of the Blackwell Encyclopedias of Sports Medicine and also the first person to nominate a library for our new book, Heart of the Community: The Libraries We Love. I met Skip through Peter Saugman, who was running the Blackwell Scientific offices on John Street in London where I had
When you're a CEO, even of a small company like Berkshire, there is an expectation that you'll be staid and well-behaved. It's probably not obvious from any of our printed material that we actually share, here in the office, a rather wicked sense of humor. And some people think the point of reference is that it
