quote [ A summer reading guide included made-up books by real authors. ]

quote [ Grace Marsceau promised to pack A Million Lives event. Authors arrived to empty rooms, unpaid bills and no decor ]

quote [ Jackie Snow reflects on what working for a books-to-prisons nonprofit has taught her about reading. ]

quote [ Owners took to decorating their books with nudes and erotic images ]

quote [ The Flemish woodcut artist Frans Masereel wrote the most compelling wordless novels ]

quote [ Through his descriptions and diagrams, illustrations and sketches Zahn shows readers the workings of the camera obscura and magic lantern ]

quote [ Sumana Roy ponders the linguistic and aesthetic significance of ?etceterization.? ]

quote [ Created by artist Charles Green Shaw between the wars the book features black and white illustrations and poetic recipes for various cocktails ]

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. ]

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. ]