"The forger has but one chance to get it just right" The Forgers by Bradford Morrow is a bibliomystery soaked in the juices of the antiquarian book trade. It begins when a collector is found dead in his home on Long Island, his hands severed, and parts of his collection of books and manuscripts vandalized beyond repair. The victim's sister, a bookstore owner in Greenwich Village is distraught and her boyfriend Will, a convicted forger with A level book genes (his dad was a we ll known collector and a Sherlock Holmes devotee), takes center stage to help her through her grief. ...
If Hemingway Wrote Javascript: Imagining the literary greats writing code
The tech world collides with the book world in If Hemingway Wrote Javascript, a new offering from No Starch Press. For writers as with computer programmers it is all about the language. It is the starting point for each discipline and to succeed at both one must master the craft while developing their own style. If Hemingway Wrote JavaScript is a book that "playfully bridges the worlds of programming and literature for the literary geek in all of us." Written by Angus Croll, a UI guru at Twitter and a leading authority on Javascript, the book is a compilation of imagined short Java...
Of Interest: Morrissey, The Talmud, The Occupy Movement “Explained” and The Best of Early Vanity Fair
"The solution to all predicaments is the goodness of privacy in a warm room with books" - Morrissey He is near the top of most lists ranking the world's best songwriters and his tenure with The Smiths had a monumental impact on the 1980's music scene yet by reading his Autobiography one has to shake their head in disbelief at the resistance his road to success has endured. The polluted record industry and corrupt legal system weigh prominently in the book. The radio stations wouldn't play his music and an ex-Smith band mate took him to the cleaners via a less than fair...
A Birthday Salute to Oscar Wilde
"The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing." -- “The Soul of Man Under Socialism” Photo by Napoleon Sarony Ballad of Reading Gaol by C.3.3. Published by London Leonard Smithers 1898, First edition, one of 800 copies printed on handmade paper. Buy. Oscar Wilde was our first literary rock star whose work continues to be widely read and his plays regularly produced. His epic 1882 tour of America has been referred to as the birth of celebrity culture in America. His witticism is legendary and his homosexuality was the cause of unfathomable persecution. We salute Oscar Wilde for blazing the way...
A Salute to Winnie-the-Pooh
Winnie-the-Pooh's arrival as it appeared in the December 24, 1925 issue of the London Evening News. It was on this day in 1926 that the world was first introduced in book form to everybody's favorite teddy bear, Winnie-the-Pooh. To celebrate here is a sampling of A.A. Milne's most famous creation. Here's an interesting fact about the book. We all know the character of Pooh has been a big player in the Disney Universe since the early 1960's but did you know that in 1930 a gentleman named Stephen Slesinger purchased the U.S. and Canadian merchandising, television, recording and other trade rights to the "Winnie-the-Pooh" works...