A way to entertain myself while waiting for the furnace-maintenance guy to arrive.

Some odd twists in the story of a boy, a boycott, and a tooth that was lost in more ways than one.

You think the NFL has it bad?

Congrats to the five contestants who won signed copies of the new paperback version.

To celebrate the paperback’s arrival in the world, I put together this 10-question quiz. (I don’t want to say it’s ridiculously easy, but you don’t have to have read the book.) Give it a try: Five winners will be chosen at random to receive a signed copy.

How to launch an obsession in three easy steps

Who knew that buying and selling old letters and documents could add up to so much trouble?

Some dates on the calendar, things happen that you can’t explain.

Join me at the National Archives for a Bill of Rights Day conversation about Lost Rights… and other bits picked up on the way to DC.

Read an excerpt of the book, and learn more about the most controversial character in the story.

One Bush protest movement comes up with a bad idea: moving books where they don’t belong.

Sometimes it sounds as if great things are about to disappear forever from public view. But you shouldn’t always believe the hype.

A Lost Rights conversation on C-SPAN—and a bit of news on more to come.

A harrowing moment—entirely self-inflicted—during the creation of Lost Rights. And other updates.

What’s it really like to go out and try and flog a book? An inside look at a day in the life.

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Had a chance to stop in Politics and Prose, the venerable Washington, D.C., bookstore last night to talk Lost Rights. It was a nice little crowd, and it was great to have CSPAN there to film the discussion for a future edition of Book TV. But the undisputed highlight for me was that almost entire [...]

Scenes from opening weekend.

Let the record show that the book got off to a rousing start on Tuesday, June 29, thanks to a crowd of 125 at Philadelphia’s National Constitution Center. Check out the photos.

The book gets top billing in the newspaper’s story about antiques-related beach reads.

Lost Rights makes the Florida gossip columns. Who could’ve guessed that was coming?

The results of the Copley auction show that even in the digital age, there are still barrels of money out there for old letters and printed things.

The extraordinary story behind “Tour de Lance: The Extraordinary Story of Lance Armstrong’s Fight to Reclaim the Tour de France.”

A couple of new reviews, a 700-year-old letter, and an unsettling object on eBay.

You never know what you’re going to find cleaning off an old bookshelf.

Join me on the Lost Rights Summer Road Trip.

It’s pretty amazing what you’ll find in the National Archives. But what might be even more shocking is what’s not there.

If you’ve got a spare $800,000 lying around, head to Sotheby’s and grab an amazing piece of history.

Joe Newman’s encounter with the original manuscript of the Bill of Rights involved a locked safe, an illegible number on a slip of paper, and a high-speed drive down the New Jersey turnpike.

Lost Rights is the Pick of the Week from Publishers Weekly—and gets a starred review.

For people who like to read, this spring and summer is as good as it gets.

A few words about the crafty researcher who helped me dig into Civil War-era records, and who just made the front page of the Providence Journal. If I ever identify the mystery soldier who took the Bill of Rights, she’ll probably be involved.

The first Lost Rights-related event is going to be a good one: A discussion about the book at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, on June 29. Hope to see you there.

A rundown of all the stuff you’re going to see on this blog.

Kirkus Reviews, which can be notoriously cranky, has some good things to say about LOST RIGHTS.