Michael Lieberman

Extreme Bookshelf Makeover

Here is one that could work in cities and towns across the planet.The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel is offering readers the chance to win a bookshelf makeover. The offer accompanies Kathy Flanigan's piece in their Home and Garden section titled; Novel ideas : Style rather than pile, your cherished book collections."You don't have to line up books like soldiers to make a bookshelf look like a library"Here's their pitch:"Contest - Get a bookshelf makeover Are your bookshelves such a mess that you won't let your friends see them? Do you worry about pulling out a book for fear of starting an...

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Book Patrol Digest. May 2, 2009

New exhibit at the Edward Gorey House Museum. "Edward Gorey's Creatures, Real and Imagined""The exhibit shows many of Gorey's original pen and ink, watercolor, and preliminary pencil illustrations for books of his own creation, and for other noted authors. Special books such as Gorey's only pop-up book, The Dwindling Party and the three-dimensional accordion book The Tunnel Calamity are highlighted." I wish there was a more comprehensive online component for the exhibit.Review in The Barnstable Patriot, "Creature Feature"***"Reading has long been up there with card playing, movie watching and tobacco chewing as a way for baseball players to pass the...

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A Fewer New (er) Books We Like and a story of what can happen at a bookshop

Tomorrow is "Buy Indie Day", the latest foray in the seemingly never-ending quest to help the independent bookseller. Why should we care? It's all about the intangibles. We can't compete on price but the value of what else is offered cannot be duplicated by the chain or online experience. Here's a little example:In 2007, Wessel & Lieberman had an exhibit of the work of Briony Morrow-Cribbs. Amy Stewart was in town with her husband, then editor of Fine Books & Collections magazine, Scott Brown for the Seattle Antiquarian Book Fair. While in town they stopped by the shop. The visit...

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