The Biblio File: images of bookmarks, for bibliophiles

And you read your Emily Dickinson
And I my Robert Frost
And we note our place with book markers
That measure what we've lost

David Levine on writers: Rick Moody

David Levine (1926-2009) was one of America’s most prominent illustrators during a career that spanned decades. No less an authority than Jules Feiffer described him as "the greatest caricaturist of the last half of the 20th century,” although Levine continued to work in the early years of this century as well. Levine’s subjects included himself (above) and people from many walks of life. Authors, scribes and scribblers were a big part of the mix, as these caricatures make clear. 

Lit Toons: Cartoons with a bookish bent

 

First Lines: Khaled Hosseini

Mariam was five years old the first time she heard the word harami.

A Thousand Splendid Suns

Khaled Hosseini

"They say it's your birthday" - writers born on January 2

André Aciman (1951)

Isaac Asimov  (1920) 

Christopher Durang  (1949)
John Hope Franklin  (1915)
Philip Freneau  (1752)

Mo Hayder  (1962)
David McKee  (1935)
Leonard Michaels  (1933)
Robert Nathan  (1894)

The Biblio File: images of readers, for bibliophiles

David Levine on writers: Caryl Phillips

David Levine (1926-2009) was one of America’s most prominent illustrators during a career that spanned decades. No less an authority than Jules Feiffer described him as "the greatest caricaturist of the last half of the 20th century,” although Levine continued to work in the early years of this century as well. Levine’s subjects included himself (above) and people from many walks of life. Authors, scribes and scribblers were a big part of the mix, as these caricatures make clear.

Lit Toons: Cartoons with a bookish bent

First Lines: Margaret Atwood

Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge.

The Blind Assassin

Margaret Atwood

"They say it's your birthday" - writers born on January 1

Arthur Hugh Clough  (1819)
Lindsey Davis  (1949)
Kristijonas Donelaitis  (1714)
Maria Edgeworth  (1768)
E.M. Forster  (1879)
Lodovic Halévy  (1834)
Dennis O'Driscoll  (1954)

Marie Louise Ramé  (1839)

J.D. Salinger  (1919)
Ousmane Sembène  (1923)
Ernest Tidyman  (1928)