Wednesday, 21 May 2025
quote [ A summer reading guide included made-up books by real authors. ]
A stained fake book
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Saturday, 10 May 2025
quote [ Grace Marsceau promised to pack A Million Lives event. Authors arrived to empty rooms, unpaid bills and no decor ]
There's a festival needs planning
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Sunday, 4 May 2025
quote [ Jackie Snow reflects on what working for a books-to-prisons nonprofit has taught her about reading. ]
Welcome to jail book prison blues
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Thursday, 13 February 2025
quote [ Owners took to decorating their books with nudes and erotic images ]
In one piece. Print Ex-libris
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Saturday, 25 January 2025
quote [ The Flemish woodcut artist Frans Masereel wrote the most compelling wordless novels ]
The Flemish spirit alive in each town
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Monday, 13 January 2025
quote [ Through his descriptions and diagrams, illustrations and sketches Zahn shows readers the workings of the camera obscura and magic lantern ]
People concertina to my private magic lantern move for me
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Monday, 30 December 2024
quote [ Sumana Roy ponders the linguistic and aesthetic significance of ?etceterization.? ]
Etcetera-nough, etcetera-nough
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Sunday, 15 December 2024
quote [ Created by artist Charles Green Shaw between the wars the book features black and white illustrations and poetic recipes for various cocktails ]
When I rhyme it's a part of the recipe
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Friday, 29 November 2024
quote [ He undoubtedly was aware of his increased productivity, but as to the quality and substance of the content, as its creator, he perhaps was not best placed to judge. ]
Great quotes on how our tools transform our thoughts.
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quote [ Rains of blood and frogs, mysterious disappearances, baffling objects in the sky: these were the anomalies that fascinated Charles Fort in his Book of the Damned. ?For every five people who read this book?, wrote one reviewer, ?four will go insane?. Joshua Blu Buhs recounts Fort?s early life, unfinished manuscripts (?X?, ?Y?), and the philosophical monism that informed his research. ]
Place your palm upon the book of the damned
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