Though it sounds like something out of one of his novels, the LA Times is reporting that David Foster Wallace is dead of an apparent suicide.
Saturday Link Dump
Plastic Logic launches as-yet unnamed e-reader aimed at business users. Some call it the the Kindle Killer.Book-themed furniture: love these bookends, adore these book vases, and want the see-saw bookshelf.Over 2500 dust-jacket from the NYPL.Beautiful short film on letterpress printing.Lord Buckley does Poe's "Raven". So does the great Basil Rathbone.VIDEO: Browsing the world's oldest telephone.Make your own flip book.A versatile and interactive map of new bookstores.The Henry Ford of Literature.Amazing collection of graphic design books.Chapbooks: An Appreciation.Looks good: Grolier launches Virginia Woolf exhibition.Fantastic: Archive of public domain comic strips.Wow: Archive of things found in books at one bookstore.Man reads every...
little blue books
one of the most prolific publishers in U.S. history, putting an estimated 300 million copies of inexpensive “Little Blue Books” into the hands of working-class and middle-class Americans. Selling for as little as five cents and small enough to fit in a trouser pocket, these books were meant to bring culture and self-education to working people,http://believermag.com/issues/200809/?read=article_potts
Orwell Was Right
Vacant house. West Seattle. September, 2008Image © Book Patrol
Larry McMurty on Books
"No one claimed book collecting was rational""one of the best aspects of antiquarian book selling is that it is so educational""one reason I've hung on to book selling is that it's progressive--