CSPAN2 Chicago Tribune Printers Row Lit Fest June 13, 2016
Yeah, you know, the thing thats sort of fun when im on book tour, theyll take me to some of the larger stores, the chain stores, and theyll say this is Mark Kurlansky to sign books you have in place, and theyll be running all over the place because theyre in so many sections of the store. It is a read that gets unraffled its not paper. Its actually a lot older than paper, and the nile seems to have been the only place where papyrus grew thick enough to make paper. So the egyptians had an absolute monopoly on papyrus and charged a lot, which is why parchment was made. What is there about paper,...