Sometimes, a publishing company gets the cover art and design just right. I found this Penguin Classics cover for Saul Bellow’s Herzog striking and quite handsome.
Saul Bellow Herzog cover art
November 6th, 2014 · No Comments
Tags: books
Charlie Rangel ha ha ha
July 16th, 2014 · No Comments
A rare visit today to the Birmingham Barnes & Noble (by virtue of being near my doctor’s office) was cut short due to the introduction of St. Paul and the Broken Bones on their sound system. I couldn’t get out of there quickly enough. I swear, that belly-flopper of a lead vocalist wants to be […]
Arch: Le Bal des Ardents bookstore
August 25th, 2013 · No Comments
This is the entrance to the Le Bal des Ardents bookstore in Lyon, France (photographer unknown). Take a virtual tour of the interior of this bookstore here.
Postcard: Library of Congress, Reading Room
April 1st, 2013 · No Comments
Tags: postcards
Time to Beat the Donuts
January 22nd, 2012 · No Comments
The manager of the local Dunkin’ Donuts is a Kerouac-loving New Yorker novelist who has a Hunter S. Thompson dagger tattooed on his forearm.
Kindle Good
December 27th, 2011 · No Comments
This new Kindle Fire is wonderful, but the neighbors’ unprotected wireless access FTW.
Advent, Day 2
December 15th, 2011 · No Comments
Advent, Day 2: A pocket-sized hardcover of the poems of William Blake, found on the used-book cart at the library for 25¢. #24daysofadvent
Armchair Traveling
November 8th, 2011 · No Comments
The e-mail tells me that the guidebook to El Camino de Santiago is waiting at the library. This is how the cash-strapped travel.
#bookswithalettermissing
September 8th, 2011 · No Comments
T Kill a Mockingbird Synopsis: Caveman gumshoe is hot on the trail of a mohawked TV star suspected of committing avicide.
