From the monthly archives:

August 2011

Steampunk | Off Book

by Dan on August 31, 2011

The latest episode of the PBS Arts series Off Book explores the Steampunk aesthetic and art movement:

It’s a little a bit disappointing that the video doesn’t feature any books. Didn’t it all start with Jules Verne and H.G. Wells?

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Live and Breath Imagination

by Dan on August 31, 2011

In this lovely video for Crane.tv, Sylvia Whitman, manager of Shakespeare & Co. and daughter of founder George Whitman, talks about the storied Parisian store and the wonder of good independent bookshops:

(via Port Magazine)

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Midweek Miscellany

August 31, 2011

Nick Hornby on book cover design at We Made This: [I]ncreasingly the big retailers, Amazon and the supermarkets, have a say in how a book looks before publication, if the book in question has serious commercial prospects. I don’t really know what to say about that, apart from observing that the people who sell books in supermarkets [...]

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AGDA: Conversations with Designers

August 30, 2011

“I just say that everything that is around you has either been designed or it’s an accident. I mean if you’re walking upstairs and you see a bit of bird shit on the staircase, I mean the bird shit is an accident but the staircase has been designed…” – Max Robinson I recently came across the Australian Graphic [...]

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Jo Nesbø on WNYC

August 26, 2011

Norwegian crime writer Jo Nesbø talks to Leonard Lopate about his latest novel, The Snowman, on WNYC: The Snowman is the seventh book in his Harry Hole series, but the first to be published by Knopf in the US. Tweet

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