The Biblio File: images of cover art, for bibliophiles

David Levine on writers: David Mamet

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: Grace Metalious

Indian summer is like a woman. Ripe, hotly passionate, but fickle, she comes and goes as she pleases so that one is never sure whether she will come at all, nor for how long she will stay.

Peyton Place

Grace Metalious

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

Evan S. Connell  (1924)
Jonathan Franzen  (1959)
Steve Hockensmith  (1968)
Oliver St. John Gogarty  (1878) 
Ted Hughes  (1930)  

V. S. Naipaul  (1932)
Sylvia Nasar  (1947)

Herta Muller  (1953)
Eric Schlosser  (1959)

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

Avenue Victor Hugo Book Shop, Lee, New Hampshire