Don Quixote Project: The 3 Finalists

May 16, 2012

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, 2012

This 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, 2012

The 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…

WiredNeil 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 TimesObit: 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

NPRFresh Air Remembers Sendak

The Guardian (2011)Interview

FlavorwireWords and Pictures: A Tribute to Maurice Sendak

BuzzfeedThe 20 Greatest Maurice Sendak Quotes

The New York Public LibraryLiterary 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.

[via Tattered Cover Book Store]