August 2010
42 posts
Pictures of Poets →
Joseph Brodsky
The Rare Book & Manuscript Library of the University of Pennsylvania has digitized and made available over 2,000 photographs of poets that originally appeared…
Haiku by the Road →
Roadside Haiku by John Morse is a series of 10 original haiku’s created by Morse and printed on bandit signs.
50 signs for each haiku were created and were placed along the…
It's a Book and the first annual Unplug Day →
A mouse, a jackass, and a monkey walk into a bookstore….
Well not really, but Lane Smith’s latest book, It’s a Book, features these three characters grappling with the…
A Landmark in Book Design →
In 1834 John Murray published Bubbles from the Brunnens of Nassau. It was the first cloth-bound book ever published with a full pictorial cover.
In his book The Collector’s Book of…
Church Plans on Burning the Qur'an on 9/11 →
Here they go again.
This time it is the Dove World Outreach Center of Gainesville, Florida who have declared 9/11, the anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade…
The Library of America Goes Wordless: The Novels... →
In what just might be one of the publishing surprises and hi-spots of 2010, The Library of America will release a 2 volume boxed set featuring the six woodcut novels of Lynd Ward.
“I believe that good books should be well made, and I try to give every book I...”
– - Alfred A. Knopf from his Borzoi Credo that originally appeared in an ad in the November, 1957 issue of the Atlantic Monthly.
via Nigel Beale
GPS Meets Ayn Rand →
Nick Newcomen really likes Ayn Rand. He believes that if “more people would read her books and take her ideas seriously, the country and world would be a better place - freer, more…
Long Beach, CA installs Poetry Boxes in hopes to... →
In a move that the local business improvement association hopes will foster creativity in the community poetry boxes have been installed outside two Long Beach, CA coffee shops. The…
Next Chapter Bookstore: A New Bookstore Worth... →
Photo: Tom Reed/The Times
These days, the opening of a bookstore anywhere on the planet is cause for a celebration but the opening of The Next Chapter Bookstore in…
The Library in Disarray: The Paintings of Wendy... →
The something that you’re looking for, 2008. Acrylic on canvas.16” x 18”
Wendy Heldmann lives and works in Los Angeles, a city where many exist in a constant state of…
The Rise of the Digital Book Cover →
Tintin and The Secret of Literature—The Digital Book Cover “I went from assuming the cover might someday disappear completely, to believing that it could take on a…
“I will always be grateful to Hollywood for … well … it’s essentially...”
– -Larry McMurtry in his new book ” Hollywood: A Third Memoir”
Review in the Los Angeles Times
The Death of a Book Collector →
On July 31st Irwin Toby Holtzman, one of the more prominent book collectors and library supporters of the second half of the twentieth-century, passed away.
Over the years Holtzman…
The Leaning Bookcases of Leman →
Vincent Thomas Leman has been building furniture for as long as he can remember. He grew up working in the shop building fine quality custom cabinetry and woodwork for the family…
Bible belonging to Joseph Smith, the founder of... →
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“My theory is the growth of interest in and practice of the book arts has been in...”
– -Michael Carabetta, Creative Director at Chronicle Books
From his post Book Art at the Chronicle Books blog
A Look Ahead: The Kindle 9XXXD →
“Kindle skips ahead 9 models to bring the biggest, highest powered e-reader ever conceived”
Here’s a little gem from LandlineTV , a hysterical one minute spoof on where the Kindle…
