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“
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“Reading has long been up there with card playing, movie watching and tobacco chewing as a way for baseball players to pass the long hours between cities and before games.”
Two pitchers from the Seattle Mariners talk about their preferred reading method. 24 year old Brandon Morrow loves his Sony e-reader while looking forward to getting the Kindle 2 while 34 Jerrod Washburn sticks to the hardcovers. -Geoff Baker at the Seattle Times
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Are you a writing bookseller? Ebury Publishing has launched a writing competition exclusively for booksellers. – via The Bookseller
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“Unsold Doctor Who annuals and Jamie Oliver cookbooks are being turned into recycled bales of paper in preparation for their new life as tissues and other household goods at a new recycling centre in Earls Barton.” The Evening Telegraph takes a look Reconomy Alibone warehouse; the place Penguin and other publishers send their overstock to get pulped.
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“Defining and Advising the Book Collector” Nigel Beale talks to writer, editor and book collector John Metcalf. Podcast
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Is there a cat in your library? Map of all known library cats in the world from Iron Frog Productions. via LISNews
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David Barnett at the Guardian, “Pen envy: why I can’t resist poring over writers’ rooms,” highlights Eamonn McCabe’s series of photographs “Writer’s Rooms,” “Manna to literary junkies” says Barnett.
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$1 million worth of Heroin found in hollowed-out books at DHL hub in Ohio- UPI.com. No word on book titles.
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At least 15 forged Hemingway inscriptions have hit the collectible market, others looming. Booksellers Peter Stern and Jeffrey Marks get the word out – The FB&C blog
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For the archivist in us- MayDay : Saving Our Heritage is an “initiative to protect cultural heritage from disasters” undertaken by Heritage Preservation: The National Institute for Conservation. The Library of Congress has come up with this nifty little chart for the cause. The “chart is a tool to help an institution validate its emergency response plan against the wide variety of factors and combinations of factors that an emergency may include”