The UK Guardian has a great feature on writer's rooms, including those of John Banville, Roald Dahl, Martin Amis, Mark Haddon, Seamus Heaney (pictured), and dozens of others.
The Bookselling Dilemma of the Modern Age
This is the cover of the current issue of The New Yorker. It's called “Read-Handed” and was done by Adrian Tomine.He is about to open the bookshop, she is about to receive the book she ordered on Amazon. Who feels worse?It is a spectacular graphic representation of the independent struggle; the struggle that both the independent business owner and the independent-minded consumer face in todays book marketplace.To get a get a better view of the image, and to see Tomine's other book-themed illustrations click here ("Read-Handed" is the 5th image on the first row).
What Barack is Reading
Barack Obama hits the tarmac in Bozeman, Montana with book in hand.The marketing folks at W.W. Norton where all over this one. I am not sure the New Times slideshow was finished before they blasted the blogwaves alerting us to this biblio treat.The book? Fareed Zakaria's new book The Post-American World published by W.W. Norton.The book begins in pure Barackian fashion -"This is a book not about the decline of America but rather the rise of everyone else."Zakaria is editor of Newsweek International and writes a regular column on foreign affairs for Newsweek. He will also be the host of...
Book Bench
This is the book bench. It resides at the center of the editorial offices of the New Yorker magazine."On any given day, it overflows with hardcovers and galleys, kindly shipped to us by publishers, plus older tomes that people have cleared out of their toppling shelves...When an e-mail is sent out announcing the arrival of new stacks, it is not unlike a drop of blood entering shark-infested waters. Newcomers to the magazine, shocked by the frenzy, are gently reassured by an editor: “But it’s for books.”It is also the namesake of a new blog from the New Yorker, The Book...
Thou Shall Not
Old Chained BibleFrom Memorials of Old Hampshire Edited by Rev. G. E. Jeans, M.A., F.S.A., London, Bemrose and Sons, 1906.Under the bible lies The Knight Hospitaller’s Tomb. Bible dates from 1620 and both reside at North Baddesley Church.via From Old Books