Photo by Josh Trujillo/Seattle P-IEarlier this month CBS Seattle released a list of Seattle's Best Independent Bookshops.They begin their story::A bigger book isn’t necessarily a better book — and so too a bigger bookstore isn’t necessarily a better bookstore. While Barnes & Noble, Borders and online retailers may have thousands of copies for that latest best seller, Seattle also is home to many smaller independent shops which cater to readers with finer tastes. Besides Elliott Bay, there’s also the Seattle Mystery Bookshop, Left Bank Books, Wessel & Lieberman and others putting a unique stamp on Seattle’s reading scene.Beside the shops...
Before you buy a book for your kids this Christmas
watch this little video.Oouch!
Illuminating Poetry
The folks at the amazing Spanish art collective Luzinterruptus, who are known for their illuminated installations in public places, are at it again. Back in March we covered their "literature vs. traffic" piece, where they covered a street in lower Manhattan with 800 lighted books. Now they have landed in Madrid.This past October, to celebrate a poetry festival, Luzinterruptus filled 1000 envelopes with poems by some of the participants, added some tiny lights, and proceeded to hang the envelopes in the garden outside the building where the festival took place. At the conclusion of the festival 100 of these envelopes...
In the Stacks: Los Angeles Public Library
For this installment of In the Stacks we visit the vast online archive of the Los Angeles Public Library. Enjoy!A couple of Bookmobiles: Decorated Los Angeles Public Library Bookmobile, 1974. Photo by Joe FriezerBookmobile at Stonehurst School, 1957. Photo by Milton Martinez A few for the political crowd: Books for freedom, 1964. Photo by George Brich American Nazi party pickets bookshop, 1962Books for a Strong America" a right leaning display in a Northridge Hughes Market. 1962Some general book treats: Caption for this one: "Wrapped in Thought. Four-year-old Philip Ross finds "ABC Easter Bunny" more interesting than his guns and spurs, 1960 Mark Twain Branch book march and rally, 1971 Books and...
The Library Photos of Massimo Listri Grace the Morgan
To coincide with the recently completed renovation of its interior The Morgan Library is hosting an exhibit of the library photographs of Massimo Listri.The monster photographs, each about five feet in width and four feet in height, depict the grand libraries of Europe which served as an inspiration for Charles Follen McKim, the architect commissioned by Pierpont Morgan to build the library in 1902.Some of the libraries represented include:The Malatestiana Library in Cesena, Italy, which was completed in 1454, The St. Gall Monastery Library in Switzerland, Trinity College Library at the University of Dublin, The Laurentian Library in Florence, which was designed by Michelangelo,and...