Photo by Esteban Diacono from his The Real World: Darth Vadar seriesvia Dark Roasted Blend and their image packed two part tribute to Star Wars.Part 1 January o7Part 2 December 07Avi Abrams contributed this:
Sweet Textualities
"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested..." -Francis Bacon "Of Studies" (The Essays, 1601)Book Patrol is pleased to share another guest post from Charles Seluzicki.******************************Among the hundreds of confections crowding three full aisles in our local Dollar Store, two particularly attracted my attention:CANDICRAFT. Delicious Ink N' Paper You Can Eat! The packet contains one liquid candy filled pen and three pieces of candy paper in four flavors.AndTAFFYTOONS. This taffy bar with crunchy bits exclaims on its wrapper: "You can eat the pictures!"Think of the pedagogical possibilities: "You may eat...
Bancroft puts ‘Loyalty Oath’ archive online
The 'Loyalty Oath' controversy was the McCarthy-era communist witch-hunt that took place on the Berkeley campus in the late 1940's. It began when "hundreds of University employees refused to sign a special anti-communist oath mandated by the Regents."Dozens of tenured faculty and staff were fired and the ensuing protests eventually spread to every campus and garnered international attention.The California Supreme Court struck down the 'loyalty oath' in 1952 and all the the terminated employees were reinstated.The collection includes 3,500 pages of searchable text, 20 images and 15 audio clipsThe book on the subject is The California Loyalty Oath Controversy by...
The Internet and the Traditional Bookseller: A Failing Relationship
Here is my piece that runs in the latest issue of Amphora, the magazine of the Alcuin Society. I have been waiting on posting this in hopes that they would be putting the new issue online but with things changing so fast in the online bookselling world I thought it was time to get it out there.I wrote the piece back in August and since then both AbeBooks and Alibris have lost their Chief Executives. A telling sign that things are 1) not what they used to be and 2) significant changes are on the horizon. One of the first...
A Mess in Washington, D.C.
Granted, things are a bit of a mess in Washington but this is over the top.Capitol Hill Books in Washington, D.C.The owner, Jim Toole, admits the shop is “disorderly and confused,” luckily he has a good sense of humor.Sign above the law book section:Image 1 via DC BlogsImage 2 via DC TravellerImage 3 via DCist