Cool series of book covers designed by Jessica Hische for Barnes & Noble classics series. More here. Via Explore.
Book trailer for The Ball: Discovering the Object of the Game by John Fox (on sale May 14). The footage shows the Kirkwell Ba’, an ancient “folk football” game played twice a year, on Christmas and New Years Day, in the streets of Kirkwall, a tiny coastal town in Orkney, northern Scotland.
Simon Callow on Dickens’ London.
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.”
Bookplate designed by Rockwell Kent (via)
Today is the UK publishing day for Defending Jacob. Safe journey, little book!
Boston Athenaeum
The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore, a lovely homage to books from Moonbot Studios, dubbed “Pixar for the iPad age.” Best thing since Spike Jonze and Olympia LeTan’s cut-paper animated love story for book-lovers. (Source, via.)
Fitzgerald’s handwritten manuscript of The Great Gatsby (via)
Support your indie bookstore!
“There are lots of reasons to support local businesses, whether it’s mom-and-pop hardware stores or neighborhood farmers’ markets. But when you buy from an independent bookseller, you’re doing something more. You’re helping to keep alive an important force in making our national literary culture more diverse, interesting and delightful. Your shelves are full of books that wouldn’t be there if not for indie booksellers you’ve never met, struggling to get by in shops you’ve never heard of. That’s why it’s so important to support the one next door.”
— Laura Miller
Amen.
Christopher Stott
The Stars Will Always Shine
30” x 30” | Oil on canvas | 2011
(On sale now - info here)
View all the Gashlycrumb Tinies here.
From the Fresh Air archives: Saul Bellow (via nprfreshair)
