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Laurence King on the Future of Design Publishing

August 9, 2011

In a great interview for Design Observer, UK publisher Laurence King discusses the future of design publishing with Mark Lamster: Illustrated book publishers, and in particular art publishers, need bookshops to survive, especially the increasingly rare specialist ones where there are discerning buyers who understand art, architecture and design. I think that these need to be treated [...]

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Something From the Weekend

July 15, 2011

Paint It Black — Alan Moore talks to Pádraig Ó Méalóid about the latest instalment of League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Century: 1969 (available next month) for the Forbidden Planet blog: What we’ve got in 1969, in keeping with the League’s usual practice, is that we’ve got a world entirely composed of references to the culture of that period, [...]

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There’s No Place Like Here

July 12, 2011

Here’s a wonderful Etsy video about Brazenhead Books, a secret secondhand bookstore located in Michael Seidenberg’s apartment on the Upper East Side, New York: (Thanks Kate!)

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Midweek Miscellany

July 6, 2011

60 Years of Innovation — The estimable John Self on publisher Peter Owen for The Guardian: It cannot simply be good luck that leads one man to publish such an embarrassingly long list of riches. Owen is clear that both “literary acumen and a business mind” are essential. He has survived where other publishing houses forging [...]

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Something for the Weekend

February 25, 2011

Luc Sante, author of Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York, has posted an amazing selection of vintage French photographic noir book covers at John Gall’s blog Spine Out. On the Defensive — Sam Lipsyte, author of The Ask, on teaching creative writing in The Financial Times: When you teach creative writing, you [...]

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