On the Spot: Joseph Hone
‘The most important lesson history has taught me? Destroy your drafts and personal papers, because one day a graduate student will comb through them looking for incriminating titbits.’
Why are you a historian of the book?
Because books are the vessels through which historical knowledge is communicated between generations.
What’s the most important lesson history has taught you?
Destroy your drafts and personal papers, because one day a graduate student will comb through them looking for incriminating titbits.
Which history book has had the greatest influence on you?
Pat Rogers’ Grub Street: Studies in a Subculture.
What book in your field should everyone read?
Adrian Johns’ The Nature of the Book.
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