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Books have always played essential parts in horror films. There is the book of spells (or ancient tome of forbidden knowledge); there is the diary or journal which reveals that a character is completely mad; and then there’s the book whose plot starts to actually come to life.
But what I hadn’t expected as I watched The Ninth Gate during AMC’s Monsterfest, was that a book could be a new kind of character in a scary movie: a victim.
Believe me, there’s nothing scarier than seeing a leather-bound book, supposedly over a century old, being handled by an alleged book collector who noisily turns its pages without gloves, while smoking. You just keep telling yourself, it’s only a movie.
Today one of my very favorite weblogs, Bibliodyssey, announced that a book based on the site was just published (with an introduction by shock-artiste Dinos Chapman). In case you aren't familiar with the site, Bibliodyssey is devoted to uncovering all sorts of printed matter buried in image archives, libraries, and museums throughout the world. I don't know how the proprietor, PK, manages to find all the astonishing things he does, but I'm glad that he does the detective work for us lazy types. Most of what's posted is in the public domain, although there's a fair amount of newer book-art represented.
The book's been published by Fuel Design Publishing. I didn't know the press, but I'm certainly familiar with the ubiquitous Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopedia. The other books they offer look equally offbeat and arty.
So nice to see something that began as an avocation become a printed book. Just like that rainbow-striped 80s gem counseled us: "Do what you love, the money will follow."
Today one of my very favorite weblogs, Bibliodyssey, announced that a book based on the site was just published (with an introduction by shock-artiste Dinos Chapman). In case you aren't familiar with the site, Bibliodyssey is devoted to uncovering all sorts of printed matter buried in image archives, libraries, and museums throughout the world. I don't know how the proprietor, PK, manages to find all the astonishing things he does, but I'm glad that he does the detective work for us lazy types. Most of what's posted is in the public domain, although there's a fair amount of newer book-art represented.
The book's been published by Fuel Design Publishing. I didn't know the press, but I'm certainly familiar with the ubiquitous Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopedia. The other books they offer look equally offbeat and arty.
So nice to see something that began as an avocation become a printed book. Just like that rainbow-striped 80s gem counseled us: "Do what you love, the money will follow."
Our favorite book promo website has to be Miranda July's for No One Belongs Here More Than You. It's perhaps a touch too self-aware and self-adorable, but I can't help respect its diy simplicity.
Then there are things like the photo that accompanies her playlist on The New York Times blog Papercuts. Much debate follows about whether the list is pretentious or not. But the post that made me laugh included this observation by a certain WadeN:
I’m a fan of Miranda July’s work, but it
seems that, based on the Times photo and nearly every other photo
recently printed of her, that she finds herself once again the
fashionable witness to some nearby catastrophe. Do you think there’s a
bus in flames a block away or perhaps a smallish building has just
collapsed?
On August 2nd, Charles Simic, frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and author of the NYRB Classic Dime-Store Alchemy: The Art of Joseph Cornell, received the 2007 Wallace Stevens Award and was also appointed the 15th Poet Laureate of the United States.
As a small tribute to these tremendous honors, one of Simic’s poems from Dime-Store Alchemy is posted below.
Untitled (Bébé Marie), Early 1940s
The chubby doll in a forest of twigs. Her eyes are open and her lips and cheeks are red. While her mother was busy with other things, she went to her purse took out the makeup, and painted her face in front of a mirror. Now she’s to be punished.
A spoiled little girl wearing a straw hat about to be burnt at the stake. One can already see the flames in her long hair entangled with the twigs. Her eyes are wide open so she can watch us watching her.
All this is vaguely erotic and sinister.
Collection, The Museum of Modern Art
You've probably read about McSweeney's sale already, but if you haven't--it's a good time to help preserve another small publisher by buying some great books.
With all the hue and cry going on at the moment about the collapse of literary culture, it's particularly bracing to read some opposing viewpoints.
Today I happened upon two articles that reveal the monsters confronting us as the gentle creatures they really are.
Did you know that British publisher Orion was about to unleash a line of compact (i.e. abridged) classics? The horror! Or maybe not. In a recent Wall Street Journal column, Terry Teachout outs himself as a childhood reader of Reader's Digest Condensed books. He didn't turn out too bad, and he's betting that many people introduced to literature this way will be ok too. Or it could just be an age thing: "The older I get, the more I appreciate those artists who say what they have to say, then shut up." I couldn't have put it more succinctly myself.
Bob Hoover at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette thinks that, despite book sections being cut left and right, we should all just relax. "The writing and reading of books persevere regardless," he writes. And he's cheered by, of all things, publishers' sales reps, whom he likens to "peddlers of Viagra, sump pumps or beer" but ones who really really love those sump pumps.
More please! Otherwise we might have to go back to gnashing our teeth.
From its inception, A Different Stripe has aimed to "sustain and preserve a universal collection of
knowledge and creativity for future generations.” Oh, wait, I must be getting us confused with the US Library of Congress. A small lapse brought on by Mission Statement Envy. Library of Congress
The LoC's blog launched yesterday, with a very nice first entry in the way of a blog mission statement by Matt Raymond. His bio mentions that he has a background in speech-writing. And it shows.
From its inception, A Different Stripe has aimed to "sustain and preserve a universal collection of
knowledge and creativity for future generations.” Oh, wait, I must be getting us confused with the US Library of Congress. A small lapse brought on by Mission Statement Envy. Library of Congress
The LoC's blog launched yesterday, with a very nice first entry in the way of a blog mission statement by Matt Raymond. His bio mentions that he has a background in speech-writing. And it shows.
Drawn! (the illustration blog) pointed out this delightful film, and also mentions that the Youtube version has subtitles (though the quality is crisper on the Russian site). I prefer to enjoy the rolling rrrrrrs of the Russian narrator, and to hear him belt out "Meeesterrr Vaatson!" undistracted by any meaning.
If, like me, you can't get enough of Terry Teachout's criticism in The Wall Street Journal, or on his blog (written with Laura Demanski) www.aboutlastnight.com, you might want to take a look at his weekly book review column for the Commentary blog, Contentions (Teachout's also the music critic for the journal, but you don't read that, do you?).
The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy, with Terry Teachout's eloquent introduction by will be available in June. Until then, you can see what he said about it in 1996, when he listed it as one of his favorite comedic novels. And his partner at About Last Night has also been a major advocate of the book.
The Regulator Bookshop in Durham, NC—which has recently celebrated its 30th anniversary--is offering what they call a "Dry up Amazon Web Site Sale," promising a $5 voucher in return for spending $30 at the store. And, what's more, they've re-introduced used books to their stock.
The site is worthing spending time at for other reasons, too. In addition to being able to peruse the staff's favorites and local writers' recommendations, the site gives their customers a voice with a "Book Love" section.
Books have always played essential parts in horror films. There is the book of spells (or ancient tome of forbidden knowledge); there is the diary or journal which reveals that a character is completely mad; and then there’s the book whose plot starts to actually come to life. 
I’m a fan of Miranda July’s work, but it seems that, based on the Times photo and nearly every other photo recently printed of her, that she finds herself once again the fashionable witness to some nearby catastrophe. Do you think there’s a bus in flames a block away or perhaps a smallish building has just collapsed?