Bomb: The Author Interviews. Edited by Betsy Sussler. Introduction by Francine Prose. Soho Press, November 2014. Since 1981 BOMB has been publishing conversations between artists. Collected here are the best from the literary world. These are not your run of the mill author interviews featuring a journalist throwing canned questions at a writer, these are conversations between writers and delve into the essence of creativity. Pairings include Martin Amis and Patrick McGrath Roberto Bolano and Carmen Boullosa, Junot Diaz and Edwidge Danticat, Jennifer Egan and Heidi Juilavits, Chaels Simic and Thomaz Salamun, John Edgar Wideman and Caryl Philips among others. An amazing compilation...
The Constructed Library of Danae Falliers
library58(digitalliteracy) It started innocently enough. While visiting the Rem Koolhaas-designed, Central Branch of the Seattle Public Library Danae Fallier began snapping photos of the iconic building and the books. When looking at the photographs she took that day she noticed that the text on the book spines had blurred and were no longer visible. It was then that her library series was born. The almost natural abstraction that appeared in those Seattle photographs motivated her to to start digitally manipulating a new group of library images. The photos in the library series are completely constructed. Gone is any text and added are...
Poetry Returns to the Buses of Seattle
The bus is a unique public space—rich with stories, character and poignant vignettes. It’s a space where, for a short while, all of us are going in the same direction After a 7 year break poetry is back on the buses of Seattle and it has returned in grand style with the theme of "Writing Home" leading the way. 850 people packed the (re) launch party that featured a slew local poets. Poems were read in English, Russian, Somali, Spanish and Vietnamese. A true poetic celebration to the diversity that makes Seattle a special place. The poems are "written by the person across the...
Fernando Vicente does Dracula
You know it is going to be good when Spanish illustrator Fernando Vicente hits the books. His latest project is a new edition of Dracula by Bram Stoker. Enough said. [youtube]http://youtu.be/IMq8oktIL1I[/youtube] The project at Behance. Previously on Book Patrol: Portraits by Fernando Vicente Fernando Vicente illustrates The Communist Manifesto Playing Cards for the Literary Set
Barnes & Noble is going back to its roots, shifts focus back to print
Granted they just announced a new bundling program for the holiday season, ‘B&N Sync Up!’ where you can buy one or more paperbacks from a specially curated selection and get the NOOK Book digital edition for just $4.99 but if you look a little closer at two other recent moves you just might get a glimpse of where they world's largest bookstore chain is heading. 1. B&N enters the print on demand business. “With the introduction of the NOOK Press print service, we’re providing authors, creators, crafters and more with a powerful new tool to bring their writing to print,” said Theresa Horner, General Manager...