Maeve Dermody and Wuthering Heights by Emily BronteFour out of five indigenous children in the remote areas of Australia are illiterate. To help break this horrific reality marie claire magazine has enlisted some of Australia's leading stars.marie claire asks some of the country' leading entertainers "to evoke the spirit of books that mean a lot to them." The project is called The Wonder of Words.Vanessa Amorosi and Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth GilbertThe campaign lasts through the month of February and benefits the Australian Literacy and Numeracy Foundation (which also benefited from Ikea's recent construction of the world's largest outdoor...
Books on the Beach: Ikea Style
It's billed as the world's largest outdoor bookcase.In honor of 30th anniversary of their BILLY bookcase Ikea constructed an outdoor library, consisting of 30 bookcases, on Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia. The BILLY is the best selling bookcase in history with over 40 million sold and 3 million a year still being produced.The one day event allowed beach goers to swap books or to buy them with the proceeds going to The Australian Literacy & Numeracy FoundationEvery one in attendance also received a voucher for $30 off a limited edition BILLY 'Jader' bookcase. The BILLY 'Jader' bookcase is covered with...
Erin Belieu on W.S. Merwin
This is the last in a series of guest posts on Book Patrol featuring the four poets who will be sharing the stage with W.S. Merwin at the upcoming "W.S. Merwin and Friends" benefit for Copper Canyon Press at Seattle's Town Hall.Erin Belieu is the author of three collections of poetry, all published by Copper Canyon Press. Her first book, Infanta published in1995, was selected for the National Poetry Series by Hayden Carruth. Her other books are One Above and One Below and Black Box, which was a finalist for the Los Angeles Book Award.Belieu also co-edited the anthology The...
Matthew Zapruder on W.S. Merwin
This is the third of a series of guest posts on Book Patrol featuring the four poets who will be sharing the stage with W.S. Merwin at the upcoming "W.S. Merwin and Friends" benefit for Copper Canyon Press at Seattle's Town Hall.Matthew Zapruder is the author of two previous collections of poetry. His last The Pajamaist was published by Copper Canyon Press in 2006. CCP will also publish his next book, Come On All You Ghosts later this year. Zapruder's work has appeared in numerous publications, from The New Yorker to The Believer, and along with fellow poet Joshua Beckman...
Books on Shirts
The company is called Out of Print and they are out to celebrate the "world’s great stories through fashion."They've just released a new line of t-shirts emblazoned with iconic dust jacket art from the classics of yesteryear.They come in at a hefty $28 a pop but they are done legitimately with the proper licensing fees going to the publisher's, artists and authors. Out of Print will also donate one book for every t-shirt they sell to Books For Africa. The first t-shirts will be ready to ship in mid February. They are launching with men's sizes only and hope to...