As I write, a stack of books tilts Pisa-like on my desk, each volume written by Gingrich and various co-authors.
Columbus adds that help-desk call volume has declined since NIH first implemented electronic grant applications.
The combined effects of travel disruption and the half term break meant many dealers were not at their desks, and volumes were thin.
On the right-hand side of my desk are eight volumes of poetry, the shortened shortlist of volumes entered for the TS Eliot prize.
Though it glosses at first as a trading-desk memoir, the volume is in fact an account of addiction and recovery, similar in structure to classics of the genre such as Jerry Stahl's "Permanent Midnight" or Caroline Knapp's "Drinking: A Love Story".
✒On my desk lands a slim volume, called Among Booksellers, by David Batterham, who I have never met, and of whom I hadn't even heard.
A finished copy of Roberto Bolaño's Nazi Literature in the Americas arrived on my desk last week; a beautiful volume with a textured, distressed jacket and an elegantly designed page layout which betrayed the care and attention lavished upon it.
Sit at your desk, turn up the volume and smile.
A cart by his desk holds an eight-volume file, all representing one veteran.
A woman in a mink coat angrily dropped a volume upon my desk: "Mommy Dearest," by Christina Crawford.
The official with the reports on his desk said that the sheer volume of the tips, and the debate about what to do with them, meant that information was allowed to go stale.
