R.I.P. Mr. Merker,Watch Flesh Clerk Who Shoves You Up And Down Online and Other News
On the Shelf

Kim Merker’s edition of “Within the Walls,” by Hilda Doolittle. Image via New York Times.
- Kim Merker, who hand-pressed beautiful poetry books for decades, has died, at eighty-one.
- Twenty-five signs you’re addicted to books. (In a whimsical way. Not a My Strange Addictionway.)
- Can you ever really own an e-book? No.
- Which doesn’t mean they aren’t big business at Book Expo America.
- Speaking of BEA … enjoy it from the comfort of your own home!