The image is a tapestry of the words "a novel" that appear on the covers or dust jackets of titles currently on the New York Times bestseller list.It was created by David Friedman for a post at the Ironic Sans blog. "I guess just being a work of fiction isn't enough anymore...You have to emblazen your book with a category on the cover so the book superstore employees know where it belongs." says Friedman.As Ron Hogan of Galleycat suggests "hasn't this tag been semi-ubiquitous for at least a decade?"I wouldn't be surprised to find a direct correlation of the use...
A Dark Alphabet Book Comes to Life
Here is an amazing video tribute to Edward Gorey's sinister alphabet book the Gashlycrumb Tinies. The film is the work of Matt Duplessie of ClandestinyThanks to BookGirl for the lead
I Guess It Still Beats the LongPen
Steve Weber at the Selling Books blog posted this cartoon.He titled it:Easy way to get rich selling collectible booksthen said:"OK, here's how it works:1. Find out which authors will be visiting your town this week (you can search here).2. Pick the most famous authors, and buy some of their books.3. Everything else you need to know is in this cartoon."Please tell me he's kidding.
Where He Called From: Raymond Carver’s Landscape
I am not sure what's in the water of these little towns on the Olympic Peninsula near Seattle but genius sure gets cultivated. The small town of Aberdeen on the south end of the peninsula was where Kurt Cobain was born and raised. His band Nirvana turned the music industry upside down. Raymond Carver's life in Port Angeles , on the north end of the peninsula, provided the fodder for his short stories which revolutionized the genre. Granted the lives of both these men were packed with pain and suffering but one cannot discount the landscape as an influence.Bill Booth...
Deep Fried Books
John LaFalce and Drew Matott are two artists who set out to create something as a "commentary on America’s obsession with an unhealthy lifestyle, unstable foreign policy and blatant disregard for intellectualism."What they came up with was to produce "an edition of altered books that were battered and deep fried."Back in May as part of Chicago's Columbia College's Manifest Urban Arts Festival LaFalce and Matott cooked up 100 books, vacuum-sealed them, signed them and sent them into the world.Here is a visual tour:BasteFrySealand take homeI wonder if these would be eligible for the various Edible Book festivals? Maybe a special...