It started as a joke between cartoonist Zach Weinersmith and designer Katie Sekelsky. Wienersmith commented about being "so bookish, my bookmarks are smaller books’ and from there they got to the t-shirt design below.Luckily, they weren't done yet. What if the could make a bookmark that is also a book?And they did - using 1.29pt font! Weinersmith says, "you can make out names like Bernardo and Hamlet with the naked eye and read the whole thing with a 10x magnifying glass. "Our assumption is that people are doing this for the charm of having the whole thing right there, rather than for convenience.”In his...
Hooray for the King County Library System
Here, in its entirety, is a letter of support sent by the National Coalition Against Censorship, American Booksellers Foundation For Free Expression and the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund to the Seattle area library system for their response to a recent challenge of Hero Heel 2 (Digital Manga Publishing).Hero Heel Letter KCLS 10.18and here is the Amazon product description for the book which was published in 2008. "Minami confessed his feelings to Sawada, and they spent a single night together. But now, Sawada is brutally rejecting Minami! Minami is trying to forget him, while his fellow actor Katagiri pursues him relentlessly. And...
Paul Auster and Michael Chabon Talk Shop and Life
Two major contemporary American authors are currently on the road talking about their latest work.Uber-librarian Nancy Pearl talks with Paul Auster about his latest Winter Journal for her Book Lust show that appears on the Seattle Channel.And on The Book Show on WAMC-FM Joe Donahue talks with Michael Chabon. The last time Chabon visited it was to promote his eventual Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay.Listen hereBoth are worth the effort. I have a much better appreciation for both men, as writers and as human beings.
The Feverish Library at Friedrich Petzel
Burgess Meredith in the book-drenched Twilight Zone episode "Time Enough At Last"They speak (I know) of the “feverish Library whose chance volumes are constantly in danger of changing into others and affirm, negate and confuse everything like a delirious divinity.” - Jorge Luis Borges, The Library of BabelFront: Richard Artschwager. From left to right: John Stezaker, Richard Prince, Stephen Prina The exhibit is organized in cooperation with noted curator and director of the non-profit alternative art space White Columns, Matthew Higgs.“The Feverish Library” brings together a number of artworks whose premises are predicated on the book as a conceptual, psychological, and cultural form. In...
Women Binders
Will work for food.::h/t to bindersfullofwomen