The Biblio File: images of cover art, for bibliophiles

David Levine on writers: Antonia Fraser

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: Franz Kafka

Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested.

The Trial

Franz Kafka

"They say it's your birthday" - writers born on November 11

Fyodor Dostoyevsky  (1821) 
Carlos Fuentes  (1928) 
Mary Gaitskill  (1954)

Min Jin Lee  (1968)
Naguib Mahfouz  (1911) 
Kurt Vonnegut  (1922)
 

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

Carlson Turner Books & Bookbindery, Portland, Maine

David Levine on writers: Geoffrey Chaucer

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.