SLIDESHOW: Book plates from famous authors
Kirsten Reach
Buzzfeed features 35 book plates from famous people, many of which are presidents and Hollywood stars. But the authors put up a good fight! Some book plates from famous authors… Read more »
Buzzfeed features 35 book plates from famous people, many of which are presidents and Hollywood stars. But the authors put up a good fight! Some book plates from famous authors… Read more »
Today is April Fools’ Day, so for the next 24 hours, be careful out there on the Internet. Every story you see should be read carefully, every headline cause for… Read more »
The folks over at Buzzfeed are always good for a fun photo set, and on Friday they posted one that will appeal to book nerds and street art enthusiasts alike.… Read more »
Last week, Melville House staffers Claire Kelley and Dustin Kurtz, and publishers Valerie Merians and Dennis Johnson, braved the storm that dumped a foot of snow on Boston to travel there for… Read more »
Last week, we told you about the Seattle bookstore formerly known as Queen Anne Books that had shut down in the fall and has just reopened as Queen Anne Book… Read more »
The Grolier Club is hosting a free exhibit, American Little Magazines of the 1890s: A Revolution in Print, from February 20-March 27. Featuring magazines such as The Philistine, the Bibelot,… Read more »
Faithful readers of MobyLives may recall last year’s sultry slideshow of writers in their underpants, including figures like Allen Ginsberg, Ernest Hemingway, Ray Bradbury, William Carlos Williams, and William Faulkner.… Read more »
High-resolution scans of long-forgotten magazines and newspapers published by Soviet exiles… Read more »
Lots of people have literary quotes or snippets from favorite poems tattooed on their bodies, but the Lexington Tattoo Project in Kentucky has taken things to the next level. Kurt… Read more »
Formed by an executive order of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1935, the Works Progress Administration was a signature initiative of the New Deal and the most ambitious employment project in… Read more »