He might be best known as one of the pillars of the influential band Sonic Youth but Thurston Moore is also one hell of a book collector.Over at VBS.TV Lance Bangs has s a great 5 minute video of Moore giving a tour of his collection. Highlight:A 1964 anti-war protest sign that belonged to Allen Ginsberg: Down with Death!War is Black Magic! Belly Flowers ToNorth and South VietnamMoore also shows off some great small press stuff and literary magazines. One of the reasons Moore is drawn to this subject matter is because as he says "alot of this work is...
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Harry Potter isn't the only thing Scholastic is doing right. Late last year they published the first pop-up book illustrated by Maurice Sendak. Mommy! was a collaboration between Sendak, author Arthur Yorinks and the noted paper engineer Matthew Reinhart. The book's beginnings can be traced to a play written and directed by Arthur Yorinks called It's Alive for the Night Kitchen Radio Theater Company (which was founded by Yorinks and Sendak). The story is about a baby's search for his mother in a haunted house. "Unlike a traditional picture book, a pop-up book requires that a great deal more original...
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