I’ve seen a lot of books about body parts this week, so when I saw the title pieces(of me) by Mark Warren, I wasn’t exactly sure what I was going to uncover. What I found was a very well-designed book by a poet photographer. It’s a wonderful example of how to artistically fuse your words [...]
I swoon over new and radically interesting book covers. I’ve confessed this before. It happens to me in Blurb’s bookstore just as much as it happens when I’m browsing shelves at San Francisco’s Booksmith. I literally get antsy when I see a killer cover. I immediately start plotting my next Blurb book just so I [...]
I get the GalleyCat newsletter from Mediabistro.com. I like reading about writers. The snarkiness is entertaining. And I really appreciate news about interesting literary websites. Today, I was introduced to Granta. I may be late to the game on this one — Granta magazine has been around since 1889 — but its website was just [...]
The Blurberati are a helpful group. Whenever I need some extra blog fodder, one of them always has something interesting to share. Today it was Kathy. She discovered BLDG BLOG’s post on hotels in the afterlife. It features some creepy/cool images from Vienna’s Architekturzentrum photography exhibit of “the concrete skeletons of five-star hotel complexes” abandoned [...]
