As everyday life became increasingly digitized, literary authors paid newfound attention to the print book as an object, and readers eagerly consumed book-themed merchandise as a way to publicly proclaim their affection for the traditional format. Jessica Pressman: Bookishness: Loving Books in a Digital Age: Columbia University Press, New York, 2020, 216 pp, Ebook $29.99, Paperback $30.00, Hardcover $90.00, ISBN 9780231195126 How authors, artists, and readers have responded to these feelings is the subject of Jessica Pressman's I Bookishness: Loving Books in a Digital Age i , published in Columbia University Press's Literature Now series. [Extracted from the article]