The Biblio File: images of publishers, for bibliophiles

David Levine on writers: Nuruddin Farah

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: Barbara Kingsolver

A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.

Flight Behavior

Barbara Kingsolver

"They say it's your birthday" - writers born on October 17

Jimmy Breslin  (1930)
Robert Jordan  (1948)
Mohja Kahf  (1967)
Arthur Miller  (1915)

Nathanael West  (1903)

The Biblio File: images of N.E. libraries, for bibliophiles

Bonney Memorial Library, Cornish, Maine

David Levine on writers: Ingo Schulze

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: Colm Toibin

Sometimes in the night he dreamed about the dead—familiar faces and the others, half-forgotten ones, fleetingly summoned up.

The Master

Colm Toibin

"They say it's your birthday" - writers born on October 16

Gunter Grass  (1927) 
Thomas Lynch  (1948)

Eugene O’Neill  (1888) 
Noah Webster  (1758)

Oscar Wilde  (1854)
Kathleen Winsor  (1919)