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.
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.
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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.
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.
This new Kindle Fire is wonderful, but the neighbors’ unprotected wireless access FTW.
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
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.
T Kill a Mockingbird Synopsis: Caveman gumshoe is hot on the trail of a mohawked TV star suspected of committing avicide.
We love to buy books, because we believe we’re buying the time to read them. – Attributed to Arthur Schopenhauer by Warren Zevon
At book club, the woman sits in the corner, occasionally punctuating the discussion with an “Mm HMM!” She only came for the pizza.