Poster For An Exhibit of Materials From The Hank Kaplan Boxing Archive.(All Images Courtesy Of Hank Kaplan Boxing Archive At Brooklyn College.)The rags to riches story behind Brooklyn College's Hank Kaplan Boxing Archive just got a little richer: on April 16, 2010 the collection's chief archivist, Professor Anthony Cucchiara, became the winner of a $315,000 endowment from the National Endowment of the Humanities (NEH) to organize the largest and most extensive boxing collection in the world. "This two-year grant will allow us to process and preserve this invaluable collection that spans two centuries of boxing history," says Prof. Cucchiara.Finding the...
Viva Las Vegas! Bauman Rare Books Needs Your Help
Bauman Rare Books - Las Vegas Are the dice of life rolling snake eyes? Are you tired of your ho-hum job? Are you ready for adventure? Consider a job in the exciting, fast-paced and fabulous world of rare book selling in Las Vegas, where you'll deal in the rarest of the rare while lounging at poolside, daquiri in hand while nubile maidens with pulchritude a'plenty fan you with palm fronds and keep that cocktail fresh and you, frisky.You'll personally deliver fabulous first editions to clients, carried on a litter and escorted by a train of glamorous showgirls swathed in oh-so-revealing...
Peake Archive Takes British Library To New Heights
Mervyn Peake, Self-portrait, submitted to the Royal Academyin 1931. Now in the National Portrait Gallery.(All Images Courtesy of the Mervyn Peake Estate, mervynpeake.org )He's been been likened to Tolkien, Dickens, Kafka, and Poe, but the work of poet, painter, playwright, author, and illustrator Mervyn Peake (1911-1968) defies comparison. Anthony Burgess wrote in his introduction to the first volume of the Gormenghast Trilogy, Peake's most famous work: "There really is no close relative to it in all our prose literature. It is uniquely brilliant..." Now scholars and readers have a chance to see the creative process of such a singular talent....
That Didn’t Take Long: The DIY iPad Book Cover
Looking for an inexpensive book-friendly way to hide and protect you new iPad?Welcome to the iBook.For $10 and a little time you can learn to cover your iPad with a book.Here are the reasons that propelled the creator of iBook:- Didn’t want to drop $40 for Apple’s iPad case- iPad back scratches easily, I hate to rest it naked on the table- I feel like a pretentious bastard using the iPad in public because everyone knows what it is, but few people have one — this helps me disguise it while in use- On a similar note, the iPad feels...
Yoko Ono Collects Rare Books: The Book Patrol Interview
I had lunch with Yoko Ono during the 2010 New York Antiquarian Book Fair.That’s a sentence I figured I’d have about as much chance of writing as, “I accept the nomination of my party for President of the United States,” but with less probability of actual realization.At the Fair on Saturday, I noticed Yoko Ono quietly walking the aisles. I thought, I must talk to her about rare books. And immediately I thought, Gertz, you do not have the nuts to approach her. And I was right.Forty minutes later I was starving and, anxious to have my wallet gutted, walked...