Books
Mar. 12, 2013
1984 recovered
New cover treatments for Orwell’s 1984 by David Pearson.
Tags: book covers · David Pearson · George Orwell
Jan. 18, 2013
Best Book Trailer Ever
The hilarious book trailer for John Kenney’s debut novel “Truth in Advertising”
Tags: book trailers · publicity · video
Nov. 5, 2012
Ian McEwan on the ideal length of a story
Ian McEwan: *I believe the novella is the perfect form of prose fiction.”
Tags: Ian McEwan · quotes for writers
Jul. 25, 2012
Orwell: Good Bad Books
“The existence of good bad literature — the fact that one can be amused or excited or even moved by a book that one’s intellect simply refuses to take seriously — is a reminder that art is not the same thing as cerebration.”
Tags: George Orwell · writing links
Jul. 10, 2012
Man from the South
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: “Man From the South,” from a story by Roald Dahl (1960) (video)
Tags: Hitchcock · Steve McQueen · TV · video
May. 8, 2012
John Fox on ball games
Book trailer for “The Ball: Discovering the Object of the Game” by my friend John Fox (on sale May 14).
Tags: book trailers · video
May. 3, 2012
Graham Greene by Yousuf Karsh
Graham Greene, 1964. Portrait by Yousuf Karsh. (photo)
Tags: Graham Greene · portraits · Portraits of Writers · Yousuf Karsh
May. 3, 2012
Ex Libris
An offer of new signed bookplates for my readers.
Tags: bookplates · publicity · Rockwell Kent
Apr. 12, 2012
Our golden age of reading
Alexis Madrigal: “… our collective memory of the past is astoundingly inaccurate. Not only has the number of people reading not declined precipitously, it’s actually gone up since the perceived golden age of American letters.”
Tags: Alexis Madrigal · reading
Jan. 27, 2012
Making Gatsby
Fitzgerald’s handwritten manuscript of “The Great Gatsby.”
Tags: F. Scott Fitzgerald · The Great Gatsby
Nov. 30, 2011
Support your indie bookstore!
Laura Miller puts the case for indie bookstores nicely. (link)
Tags: Laura Miller · links
Nov. 30, 2011
Emily Dickinson was here
Emily Dickinson’s only surviving dress, a photo by Annie Leibovitz.
Tags: Annie Leibovitz · Emily Dickinson
Sep. 20, 2011
John le Carré: The final interview
John le Carré, age 79, in what he claims is the final interview he will grant (2010).
Tags: interviews · John le Carre · video
Sep. 7, 2011
Lamb House
Images of Lamb House, the longtime residence of Henry James.
Tags: Henry James
Aug. 28, 2011
The origin of Roy Hobbs
Eddie Waitkus, the ballplayer whose shooting by a deranged fan inspired a similar incident in Bernard Malamud’s “The Natural.”
Tags: baseball · Bernard Malamud · The Natural
Aug. 5, 2011
Quote of the Day
Noam Chomsky: “It is quite possible — overwhelmingly probable, one might guess — that we will always learn more about human life and personality from novels than from scientific psychology.”
Tags: Noam Chomsky · quotes
Jun. 28, 2011
The Death of Print
The sales figures for April 2011 are in and the PW headline says it all: digital jumps, print plummets.
Tags: ebooks
Jun. 22, 2011
Making books is fun!
A vintage children’s video from Encyclopedia Britannica on making books (1947)
Tags: video