IF you have been putting off ironing your telephone book, you need no longer hesitate. I can tell you how it’s done. I recently ironed the Manhattan Directory—all eighteen hundred and thirty-six pages ...

In 1971, I produced an independent feature film in New York, written and directed by Nelson Lyon, called “The Telephone Book.” It is a dark comedy about a girl who falls in love with the world’s ...

It sounds like a punchline, but Ammon Shea has written a history of the phone book. What makes it more interesting than reading the actual phone book is the fact that Shea loves nothing more than a ...

Alas, the poor phone book. Once, it was the cornerstone of American connection, an indispensable resource people relied on to find pizza shops, plumbers, and the number of the cute girl in math class.

This week marked the anniversary of that solemn tome, that august undertaking, the telephone book, in honor of which the Saturday Evening Post has run a fascinating and whimsical piece by Jeff Nillson ...

ALBANY — The days of having a new telephone book regularly delivered to your door are over for many New Yorkers. The state Public Service Commission on Thursday allowed Verizon and its directory ...

"Los Angeles Telephone Book (1882)" was priced around $13,000 at Rare Books L.A. (William Liang / For The Times) A dog-eared punk zine flutters near a vellum-bound folio. An out-of-print tome sits ...

A new locally produced consumer telephone book is now on the streets of metropolitan Fargo-Moorhead. SmartSearch, the brainchild of Fargoan Dan Bryant, is being distributed to 80,000 homes in Fargo, ...

Originally published on January 6, 2017. "Telephone Books" was produced by Alisa Siegel. It first aired in January, 2017. We are happy to report that the Telephone Book Club for two is still up and ...

A rare telephone book showcasing the size of the Jewish community living in Warsaw, Poland, at the start of World War II is on display this week to commemorate Holocaust Remembrance Day, which starts ...