“I knew these books were coming into the library, and I just hadn’t had time to research it. I finally got the time back at the end of January,” Egger said. He added that he knows about the industry from having owned a bookstore years ago. “It’s been a huge push from the publishers and the librarians to get these books...
2022 winners of the AIGA competition for best designed books and covers of the year. I’ve bought more than a few books specifically because of the cover design and there are several of the winners here that I’ve added to my “to read” list. As much as I read digitally, I still love the physicality of books and think that...
A Dracula Daily fan made a substack for Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, which comes to your inbox on the days that Dracula Daily doesn’t. It’s just getting started, so I wanted to share the link for anyone who might want to get onboard before the plot picks up! Frankenstein / The Modern Prometheus really is so good. Sci fi...
Masha du Toit is celebrating the release of their books on 7 new platforms by making them free until 31st July (except on Amazon because Amazon has other ideas). Sci-fi and fantasy, LGBTQ....
A master class in close reading, and a towering analysis of novelist Thomas Pynchon. Really good piece for being an essay published in a relatively laid-back periodical.
I had picked this up at a used book store a long ways back after reading nothing but rock bios for a while - thought a little historical non-fiction could beef my brain up....
[…] Eco separated his visitors into two categories: “those who react with ‘Wow! Signore professore dottore Eco, what a library you have. How many of these books have you read’ and the others — a very small minority — who get the point is that a private library is not an ego-boosting appendages but a research tool.”