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A library thief decimated the rare-book collections of academic libraries across the US during a 1980 crime spree. Travis McDade, the curator of law rare books at the University of Illinois College of Law and an expert on rare-book crimes, tells the story of the thefts and how the thief was caught in his new book, Torn from Their Bindings: A Story of Art, Science, and the Pillaging of American University Libraries.

The location for the book signing for Thursday’s OCB authors will be held at the Lyric Theatre on the Oxford Square. Doors at 5:00, Thacker Mountain Radio to follow at 6:00.

Here’s a great interview with Gabino Iglesias from the Los Angeles Review of Books. Iglesias will be here on Friday, March 29, for a panel led by Oxonian crime noir writer William Boyle, and authors Willy Vlautin and Elle Nash.

City of a Million Dreams: A History of New Orleans at Year 300 was written by Jason Berry. Here’s a trailer for the book, which includes scenes from Berry’s 2019 documentary film by the same name.

Here’s Elizabeth Catte in Guernica on J.D. Vance, colonial logic, and the end of coal in the region that outsiders love to imagine but can’t seem to understand.