*UPDATE* Author Timothy Rybeck looks at 10 of Hitler's favorite books in his post "Hitler's Bedtime Reading," over at Tina Brown's new online mag The Daily Beast.Later this month Alfred A. Knopf will publish Timothy W. Rybeck's Hitler's Private Library : The Books That Shaped His Life.Though known more for his burning of books than for collecting them Hitler was a serious bibliophile and had amassed a huge personal library.Upon his demise the library, which was found in salt mine near Berchtesgaden, was scattered- The Soviet army sent about 10,000 books from his library back to Moscow, some American officers...
More Political Poetry – Sarah Palin
The Poetry of Sarah Palin : Recent works by the Republican vice presidential candidate" by Hart Seely at Salon.com,In her brief tenure in the public eye Plain "has chosen to bypass the media filter and speak directly to fans through her intensely personal verses, spoken poems that drill into the vagaries of modern life as if they were oil deposits beneath a government-protected tundra.""The poems collected here were compiled verbatim from only three brief interviews. So just imagine the work Sarah Palin could produce over the next four (or eight) years."Here's one:"You Can't Blink"You can't blink.You have to be wiredIn...
Rare Book Joke
A collector of rare books ran into an acquaintance who told him he had just thrown away an old bible that he found in a dusty, old box. He happened to mention that Guten-somebody- or-other had printed it."Not Gutenberg?" gasped the collector."Yes, that was it!""You idiot! You've thrown away one of the first books ever printed. A copy recently sold at an auction for half a million dollars!""Oh, I don't think this book would have been worth anything close to that much," replied the man. "It was scribbled all over in the margins by some guy named Martin Luther."via the...
DIY – Upside Down Bookshelf
I know parts of the book world are upside down these days but this one has my head spinning. - More cool how to projects
Super Thursday in the UK
No, it's not primary season in the UK but today marks the official beginning of the Christmas season for the publishing world.Close to 800 titles are being published today, about three times more than on an average day, all in hopes that they will crack the top ten and land in Christmas stockings throughout the kingdom.Mark Brown's piece in the Guardian, "Book world's Super Thursday launches 800 titles in race for Christmas top 10"