Under a Lamp (Lev Tolstoy in the Family Circle) by Leonid Pasternak, 1902.
Under a Lamp by Leonid Pasternak, 1902
9 of Literature’s Most Beloved Heroines [courtesy HUFF POST BOOKS]
Do you have a favourite?
Celebrate H.P. Lovecraft’s Birthday With 20 of His Creepiest Book Covers [courtesy FLAVORWIRE]
At the Mountains of Madness. Courtesy Flavorwire.
NecronomiCon To Celebrate H.P. Lovecraft [courtesy HUFF POST BOOKS]
Who needs a pillow? Not Miss Zizi Jeanmaire.
Miss Z
“Although the sphere and importance of vision were expanding at this time, to say that visual experience was becoming autonomous would be imprecise. The aesthetic of illusionism engaged viewers as embodied spectators, physically drawn into an image or alert to beat a hasty retreat. One measure of an illusion’s success was its ability to provoke a bodily response-an impulse to touch or to flee. The challenges that modern life and modern illusions presented to modern subjects were too great for vision to handle on its own.”-from the essay Seeing, Touching, Fleeing by Michael Leja (Moving Pictures American Art and Early Film 1880-1910)
Cover of The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1922.
The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1922
The Librarian by Giuseppe Arcimboldo, circa 1570.
The Librarian. Giuseppe Arcimboldo. Circa 1570.
“You can’t get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.”-C.S. Lewis
Red Kimono on the Roof, 1912, by John French Sloan (born 2 August 1871).
“Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.”-James Baldwin (born 2 August 1924)
A Visual History of the Evolution of the Penguin Paperback [courtesy New Republic]
My love of all things Penguin is well-known, but this is an interesting tour of its history.
A Small Press Life: Books. Art. Writing. Life. Tea. 