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espressobrooklyn: BookUp Event! This past Saturday we had a...

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 12:56:11 -0400

BookUp Event!

This past Saturday we had a great time with everyone involved in The National Book Award Foundation’s BookUpNYC Program. We had three amazing groups of kids watching their work printed and bound here at The Brooklyn Public Library. Can’t wait to do it again!

Reblogging work blog FOR THE KIDS!

espressobrooklyn: Facsimile of the Day: Caleb Williams A lot of...

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 10:54:53 -0400

espressobrooklyn:

Facsimile of the Day: Caleb Williams

A lot of people know Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein, but most people don’t realize that her father wrote what many consider to be the first suspense novel…

From Wikipedia: Things as They Are; or The Adventures of Caleb Williams (often abbreviated to Caleb Williams) (1794) by William Godwin is a three-volume novel written as a call to end the abuse of power by what Godwin saw as a tyrannical government. Intended as a popularization of the ideas presented in his 1793 treatise Political Justice Godwin uses Caleb Williams to show how legal and other institutions can and do destroy individuals, even when the people the justice system touches are innocent of any crime. This reality, in Godwin’s mind was therefore a description of “things as they are.” The original manuscript included a preface that was removed for publication, because its content alarmed booksellers of the time.[1]

Caleb Williams: This 1831 edition is a beautiful facsimile with some very attractive engravings of scenes from the novel.

Price: $17.99

So I’ve begun a tumblr for my job at Brooklyn Public Library’s Central Branch. I run the Espresso Book Machine (As I’ve probably overstated here in this blog in the past couple weeks… sorry about that). I hope those of you that take the time to follow SAGATROPE in your feed will start following this page.

Thanks!

-Anderson

http://espressobrooklyn.tumblr.com

betterbooktitles: John Fowles: The Collector Reader Submission:...

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 00:03:29 -0400

betterbooktitles:

John Fowles: The Collector

Reader Submission: Title by Guadalupe de la Fuente.

bookporn: Happy Birthday, Robert Frost!

Mon, 26 Mar 2012 20:23:54 -0400

bookporn:

Happy Birthday, Robert Frost!

millionsmillions: Truman Capote’s bedroom. Check out where the...

Mon, 26 Mar 2012 20:19:11 -0400

millionsmillions:

Truman Capote’s bedroom. Check out where the magic happens for fourteen other writers, too.

nypl: artprintsphotographsnypl: Today, on March 9, 1858,...

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 16:57:13 -0400

nypl:

artprintsphotographsnypl:

Today, on March 9, 1858, American designer and publisher Gustav Stickley was born. He believed that people should make their own home furniture and furnishings, and even provided designs in his monthly magazine “The Craftsman”. Images are from the April 1905 issue of “The Craftsman”.

We’re a little late in sharing this post from our friends at the Art, Prints & Photographs Collections of the NYPL. But, it’s fascinating, nonetheless!

prettybooks: Literature (by Mark Hiser)

Mon, 19 Mar 2012 21:25:56 -0400

prettybooks:

Literature (by Mark Hiser)

Death of Britannica (BBC) Pay close attention to the gentleman...

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 10:34:08 -0400

Death of Britannica (BBC)

Pay close attention to the gentleman being interviewed toward the end of the piece.

areasofmyexpertise: paulftompkins: Libraries are a good thing...

Thu, 08 Mar 2012 11:04:55 -0500

areasofmyexpertise:

paulftompkins:

Libraries are a good thing to support, I think. I am of the opinion that they may serve to decrease the level of ignorance in the world rather than increase it. We’re probably all set, ignorance-wise. I bet we could afford to go the other way for a while, see how that works. I do wish they had provided an explanation for the melting shoes, though.

IT’S ME AGAIN: Hodgman Actual.

Thank you for re-tumbling this Paul, and everyone. EVEN YOU, NEIL GAIMAN.

To answer your question, I found this answer on the YouTube page:

“Thank you, everybody! You’re all helping a lot! To answer: Our heat source is a grate in the middle of the library’s floor. It gets so hot that the soles of our shoes melt if we stand on it for more than 10 seconds. (It’s directly in front of the check-out desk.) It’s also obviously a hazard for storyhour, with kids crawling around!”

AND SPEAKING OF TINY LIBRARIES,

Here is the Robertson Memorial Library in Leyden, MA.

It is a good place and a place for good. You can give it money, too.

(Please note: they have a new copy machine!)

UNTIL WE START a separate tumblr for tiny libraries, I say THANK YOU EVERYONE.

This is Hodgman Actual signing off.

That is all.

GVOY: I was totally on the evening news emphasizing the word...

Thu, 08 Mar 2012 10:31:00 -0500

GVOY: I was ~~totally~~ on the evening news emphasizing the word “FACSIMILE” edition.

theatlantic: Both Flesh and Not, a posthumous collection of...

Tue, 06 Mar 2012 15:14:57 -0500

theatlantic:

Both Flesh and Not, a posthumous collection of essays by David Foster Wallace, to be published in November.

According to Amazon’s product description, the collection will feature “F/X Porn,” his 1998 analysis of Terminator 2 and ”Federer as Religious Experience,” a 2006 New York Times piece about the divine aspects of the Swiss tennis player’s game.

Read more. [Image: Wikimedia Commons]

I am now the operating consultant of Brooklyn Central...

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 11:51:26 -0500

I am now the operating consultant of Brooklyn Central Library’s new Espresso Book Machine. March 7th is our official launch, but until then Brooklyn Central is taking suggestions for a name. That’s right, the machine gets a name! The Singularity is near! (My submission? I threw out the name “Mailer” in honor of Brooklynite author Norman Mailer, a man that has literally come to blows with actor Rip Torn.) I recommend anybody who is interested in this literary tom-foolery submit some cool names for this amazing machine. Also, anybody that wants to print a book of some kind, come on over and I’ll show you how it’s done.

http://www.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/central/ebm

mcnallykids: I must have read these books every night. This is,...

Mon, 27 Feb 2012 20:24:19 -0500

mcnallykids:

I must have read these books every night. This is, indeed, a sad, sad day.

theatlantic:

Remembering Jan Berenstain, co-creator of ‘The Berenstain Bears’

In a sad development for those who grew up with her ubiquitous children’s books, Jan Berenstain, co-creator of The Berenstain Bears, died on Friday at age 88 after suffering a severe stroke the day before, reports the Associated Press. The longtime resident of Solebury, Pennsylvania is survived by four grandchildren and her two sons, one of which, named Mike, told the AP’s Joann Loviglio that his mother remained productive until the end. ”She was working on two books and had been doing illustrations until the day before she passed away.” All told, about 260 million of the jovial books filled with time-tested, family-oriented adages made their way into the hands of children and parents since the series first began.

Read more. [Image: Associated Press]

teachingliteracy: Sherlock Holmes (by kindofamazing_)

Mon, 27 Feb 2012 20:20:34 -0500

teachingliteracy:

Sherlock Holmes (by kindofamazing_)

poisontao: F. Scott Fitzgerald (Midnight in Paris)

Sun, 26 Feb 2012 11:46:32 -0500

poisontao:

F. Scott Fitzgerald

(Midnight in Paris)

book-aesthete: Three Women Sylvia Plath. Turret Books,...

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:53:37 -0500

book-aesthete:

Three Women
Sylvia Plath. Turret Books, 1968.

First edition, one of 180 copies, frontispiece and one other woodcut illustration, original cloth, 4to.
_________________________________
FIRST VOICE:
I am slow as the world. I am very patient,
Turning through my time, the suns and stars
Regarding me with attention.
The moon’s concern is more personal:
She passes and repasses, luminous as a nurse.
Is she sorry for what will happen? I do not think so.
She is simply astonished at fertility.

When I walk out, I am a great event.
I do not have to think, or even rehearse.
What happens in me will happen without attention.
The pheasant stands on the hill;
He is arranging his brown feathers.
I cannot help smiling at what it is I know.
Leaves and petals attend me. I am ready.
-First two stanzas

Happy birthday to Dickens.

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:08:33 -0500

Happy birthday to Dickens.

therealholdencaulfield: “He was his own man, and I always found...

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:13:09 -0500

therealholdencaulfield:

“He was his own man, and I always found him to be grateful for his own inventions, the books that made it financially possible for him to live as he wished. There was not a false note in what he said or did. It came unforgettably entwined with his original humor. He was incapable of duplicity. That strong character of his—unique in my experience—was significant and instructive to me. Its influence did not end with his death.”

— Lillian Ross on J.D. Salinger, The New Yorker, February 2, 2012

thelifeguardlibrarian: Miniature Brownstone Library Coming To...

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 22:07:00 -0500

thelifeguardlibrarian:

Miniature Brownstone Library Coming To Brooklyn

The Most Dangerous Novels

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 10:11:05 -0500

The Most Dangerous Novels