Here are the 3 finalists as voted on by you. Thanks to all the entrants and their amazing designs and thanks to everyone who voted. We couldn’t have done this without you!
We will be announcing the winner shortly.
Literary News You Can Use: May 16
Visual guide to what New Yorkers are reading: The Underground New York Public Library
The Outsiders eBook is on the way [via GalleyCat]
Did your city make Amazon’s Most Well-Read Cities List? [via Flavorwire]
Remembering Carlos Fuentes, author of Gringo Viejo and The Death of Artemio Cruz, who passed away at the age of 83. [via NPR]
Found: Illustrations by Harry Clarke for Edgar Allan Poe
May 15, 2012
Harry Clarke’s 1919 illustrations for Edgar Allan Poe’s Tales of Mystery and Imagination [via 50 Watts]
Literary News You Can Use: May 11
May 11, 2012This is a new feature we’re debuting to catch you up on important or unique literary news you may have missed yesterday.
The Man Who Took on Amazon and Saved a Bookstore [via Forbes]
Irish National Library puts James Joyce manuscripts online. [via Jacket Copy]
Amazon lands the rights to all seven Harry Potter eBooks for its Kindle lending library. You still can only buy the Harry Potter eBooks at Pottermore. [via The Telegraph]
Fifty Shades of Grey banned in some Florida libraries. [via The Guardian]
HarperCollins says results up in quarter; eBook sales accounted for almost 18% of worldwide sales. [via Publishers Weekly]
Book Fair: The Nightingale-Bamford School
May 9, 2012The Nightingale-Bamford School in New York City held their annual book fair last week and we stopped by to check it out. Summer is right around the corner and the fair is intended as a service to Nightingale families to facilitate the purchase of appropriate summer reading materials.
School entrance
Pointing us in the right direction
Wide range of subjects and titles available
Our shirts on display!
Remembering Maurice Sendak, 1928-2012
May 8, 2012
(via Letters of Note)
Remembering Maurice Sendak…
Wired – Neil Gaiman on Sendak, “…what I always responded to, was the feeling that Sendak owed nothing to anyone in the books that he made. His only obligation was to the book, to make it true.”
The New York Times – Obit: Author of Splendid Nightmares
The Atlantic (2011) – Long History of Scaring Kids (and Their Parents)
The New Yorker (1993) – Art Spiegeleman visited Sendak and drew the experience
Vanity Fair (2011) – Portrait: Maurice Sendak
The Colbert Report (2012) – Stephen Colbert’s two-part interview with Maurice Sendak
Rolling Stone (1976) – King of All Wild Things
60 Minutes (1973) – Sendak profile
NPR – Fresh Air Remembers Sendak
The Guardian (2011) – Interview
Flavorwire – Words and Pictures: A Tribute to Maurice Sendak
Buzzfeed – The 20 Greatest Maurice Sendak Quotes
The New York Public Library – Literary Landmarks in NYC
Found: “These Are Your Kids on Books” Poster
May 3, 2012
Burning Through Pages, a non-profit organization based out of Denver, Colorado, has one goal:
“To inspire a love of reading in today’s youth by recommending, donating, and discussing books.”
[Thanks to GalleyCat for the link]
Don Quixote Project: Entries Update
May 1, 2012
Here are just a few of the 63 designs entered in our Don Quixote Project collaboration with Wilco and Veer supporting 826 National.
Keep those entries coming! Click here for full details.
‘A Clockwork Orange’ Limited Edition Print
April 30, 2012
To coincide with this year’s 50th anniversary of Anthony Burgess’s classic novel A Clockwork Orange, Penguin Books former art director David Pelham has recreated his iconic image of the novel’s ‘cog-eyed droog’ as a limited edition print.
Pelham has also released his acclaimed series of paintings for The Drowned World, The Terminal Beach and other JG Ballard titles as limited edition prints. The artist and author were good friends, and Pelham’s ‘airless thermonuclear landscapes, devoid of time’ are widely regarded as the definitive Ballardian artworks.
Each print is reproduced actual size from Pelham’s original paintings and is hand signed and numbered. The prints are framed, glazed and ready-to-hang, and available from fine art publisher wire-frame.
Out of Print customers can get 20% off using discount code OOP (expires May 31, 2012). Click here for more details.
Weekend Reading: 1962 Article on Books in the 21st-century
April 27, 2012
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A 1962 article in The Seattle Times asked a writer, playwright, bookseller and a Professor of English what the book world would be like in the 21st-century.
