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Saturday, November 7, 2009

“I suppose it all began when I came out of the womb. I looked back up at my mother and thought to myself, ‘That’s the last time I’m going up one of those.’” Stephen Fry on his sexuality

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Friday, November 6, 2009

libraryland:iheartmyart:

Andrea Offermann, 2006

Life of Pi

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absolve:picapixels:this isn’t happiness.™ Peter Nidzgorski, tumblr (via typersx)

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puscic:[daily dose of imagery] book walker

Used books on Brunswick Avenue at Bloor St W., Toronto

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Thursday, November 5, 2009

hostelcolonial:

Mural - La Boca - Buenos Aires

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margartia:

Tying into Nabokov’s love of lepidoptery, I asked twenty different designers to design specimen boxes for the twenty different books. The only restrictions were that one had to use paper and pins to illustrate the title.— John Gall, The Nabokov Project.

Clockwise from upper left: Stephen Doyle, Yentus and Booher, Carin Goldberg, and Michael Bierut.
Photographs by Allison Gootee.

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libraryland:librarynth:

John Gall has the way cool (and continuing) story of the cover design for Remainder, one of the better books I’ve read this year. This has so many layers of meta, I don’t know where to even begin.

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gatsbylives:sensedelirium:robot-heart: Oh So Beautiful Paper: Pottery Barn

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“What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all have.” Lionel Trilling

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“We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us.” Lionel Trilling

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“Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.” Lionel Trilling

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Today in History - November 5, 1975

Critic and writer Lionel Trilling dies in New York

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libraryland:gatsbylives:

The answer to the question “Where’s Neil Gaiman When You Need Him?” is

“In China Having Lunch With His Crazy Hair.”

(image via @neilhimself Twitter yesterday)

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Wednesday, November 4, 2009