Bert KrakThe latest nifty offering from Penguin is a series called Penguin Inks where tattoo artists were commissioned to come up with cover designs for 6 modern classics.Chris ConnThe series is set to debut in June.More at Shelf Talk, the book blog of Entertainment Weekly.While we're talking tatts. Here's a women who sacrificed her back and arms for Alice in Wonderland.click image to enlargeand finally, don't forget Jeff Johnson's recent acclaimed memoir Tattoo Machine: Tall Tales, True Stories, and My Life in Ink.Thanks to @mikecane for the lead on the Alice tattoo
The Rebirth of a Bookmobile
It started innocently enough. Over dinner a friend mentioned that he saw a used bookmobile for sale on Craigslist and wished he could by it.That was all the impetus Tom Corwin needed, "By the end of dinner, I had come up with this whole concept of buying the bookmobile myself, and having authors join me, taking turns behind the wheel, and driving across the country interviewing people about the books that have touched their lives and creating a documentary film and a Web-based literacy outreach component" Corwin told the San Francisco Chronicle.He was soon off to suburban Chicago to buy...
Library on Ice
I'll never forget my first visit to Minnesota. Being born and raised in New York there had been few reasons to venture west of the Hudson River. I was in my early 20's and coming off the disco years. Rumor had it that Minnesota was the perfect place to dry out. So off I went. It was late March and winter was just finishing up. In the cab from the airport, I kept seeing lots and lots of little shacks huddled close together off in the distance. Every few miles they seemed to appear again. Finally, after a handful of...
Chocolate for the Book Crowd
While down in San Francisco recently for a book fair the folks at Bridge Brand Chocolates were handing out this flyer promoting their line of Book Lover's Chocolate.Here's the pitch:"Bridge Brands Chocolate's Book Lover's Chocolate Collection is our line of chocolate dedicated to the great combination of chocolate and literature.Packaged in a recycled paper container that evokes the beautiful elegance of an old-world hardcover book, our Book Lover's Chocolate Three Box Gift Set contains one of each Milk, Dark and Dark Espresso Chocolate boxes."Though a little late for Valentine's Day this year, no worries, for there are still a couple...
Sit and Read: The chair bookcase bookcase chair
Talk about killing two birds with one stone. This gem was "developed as a chair and a bookcase simultaneously, the intention was to provide both the storage for and a seat in which to read."It was designed by Gail Peter Borden. Borden is the Borden of the architecture firm Borden Partnership and is a professor at the University of Southern California School of Architecture.The design of the chair bookcase bookcase chair "focused on sustainability", with each chair using over 90% of a 4'x8' sheet of plywood. It is "based on the hybrid dimensions of Le Corbusier's infamous leather and metal...