Things in books
In The Paris Review, Jane Stern writes about strange things she has found in books.
Two books by Jerry Craft
New Kid and Class Act, stories of school, friendship, misunderstandings, adjustments, and learning, graphic novels sharply and wittily drawn and written.
Pencil books for children
The Musgrave Pencil Company recommends four children’s books about pencils (and their friends the erasers).
Jason Epstein (1928–2022)
Editor and publisher.`
Richard Macksey’s library
I recognized the name , but I’d never seen the library: 51,000 books.
David Brooks’s books
Arranged by color.
The best book of the past 125 years
Yeah, right.
“Book-wrapt”
In its real-estate section, The New York Times hypes the idea of being “book-wrapt” in your “bookroom.”
Q & Q & Q & A
From Tove Jansson’s The Summer Book.
NYT “Best Book”
As the poet William Bronk said, in response to a survey asking for the ten best books of American poetry published since 1945, “Don’t ask me. I believe the arts are not competitive.”
Reading in NYC
From The New York Times, photographs of people reading in New York City.
Gotham Book Mart
51 West 47th Street, c. 1939—1941.
Index, A review of
“Like writing and the printed book, indexes created excitement as well as anxiety, just as digital aids do now”: from Anthony Grafton’s review of Dennis Duncan’s Index, A History of the.
“Favorite Books”
An anonymous reader asked me to “correct” the Favorite Books section of my Blogger profile by listing titles instead of writers. From my point of view, there’s nothing to fix. As my wife Elaine suggests, you can take any name on the list as prefaced by the words “anything by.”
Lois Ehlert (1934–2021)
If Lois Ehlert’s name doesn’t ring a bell, think Chicka Chicka Boom Boom.
Eric Carle (1929–2021)
Artist and author of countless books for children.
FSRC: annual report
Nine novels, two plays, one short-story collection, and one mountain.
NYRB sale
New York Review Books is having a sale on all books.
Person, woman, man, books, TV
A president and his sister: “What do you do?” the president asked. “I read,” Barry replied. “What do you read?” the president said. “Books,” Barry said.
Chicken and cheese
As a boy, with Dracula as my inspiration, I would add a slice of American cheese to my plate whenever we had chicken for dinner. Cheese, right?
“Bookstores”
Fran Lebowitz, in the documentary film The Booksellers (dir. D.W. Young, 2019): “You know what they used to call independent bookstores? Bookstores.”
Old and new bookmarks
The old one, a DO-NOT-USE-AS-BOOKMARK bookmark, made it through five years of the Four Seasons Reading Club. The new one is a legit bookmark, from Three Lives & Company.
FSRC: annual report
The Four Seasons Reading Club, our household’s two-person adventure in reading, just finished its fifth year.
FSRC: annual report
The Four Seasons Reading Club, our household’s two-person adventure in reading, just finished its fifth year.
Woodruff’s Morison
That book on Judy Woodruff’s right, the one with the blue-gray cover, its spine often partly hidden behind the NewsHour logo — I’ve been wondering what it is.
Recently updated
“By the Book” for the rest of us, now with more books.
A National Emergency Library
The Internet Archive has suspended waitlists for all books in its collection to create a National Emergency Library.
Recently updated
“By the Book” for the rest of us, now with more childhood reading.
Recently updated
“By the Book” for the rest of us, now with more books.
The Booksellers
A new documentary about antiquarian booksellers.