January 12, 2005

A Thing, a Thing, a Marvelous Thing

My favorite art historian had an article published in the Boston Globe on Sunday about the "thing studies" craze—scholarly and popular histories of mundane things: glass, salt, cod, cotton, paperclips. I read one of the things books, the one about cod. It was surprisingly informative and entertaining, for a book about cod.

Posted by mike, January 12, 2005 2:42 PM
Comments

I'd like to read one of these books. Do you still have that cod book?

Posted by: Shawn at January 13, 2005 1:47 PM

Do you have one on grouper? I want to read about grouper. They eat a lot of grouper down here, and not so much cod.

Posted by: shane at January 13, 2005 1:54 PM

Shane has the cod book, unless it was in the Lost Package.

Posted by: mike at January 13, 2005 3:29 PM

I do believe I have the cod book. I think that was in the book package you sent me last year sometime. I have not read it, though I read everything else you sent. We've moved since then, though, so I am not sure where it is at.

Posted by: shane at January 14, 2005 7:48 AM