Please contact us at plus@slate.com for help. John Dickerson talks with author Roland Allen about his new book, The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper. They discuss the historical origins ...

“You can't be a one or two-book wonder,” says Jamie Raab, president and publisher of Grand Central Publishing, which acquired Sparks’s The Notebook. “Authors like Sparks tend to attract a ...

Like similar authors of popular scholarship ... s beautifully bound but largely unused notebooks for his own nontheological thinking. Such a “waste book,” as they were called, “was the ...