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: William Wordsworth

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: Mat Johnson

Always thought if I didn’t get tenure I would shoot myself or strap a bomb to my chest and walk into the faculty cafeteria, but when it happened I just got bourbon drunk and cried a lot and rolled into a ball on my office floor.

Pym

Mat Johnson

"They say it's your birthday" - writers born on August 21

Alexander Chee  (1967)

X. J. Kennedy  (1929)
William Henry Ogilvie  (1869)

Robert Stone  (1937)

The Biblio File: images of readers, for bibliophiles

"Léopoldine Hugo," Auguste de Chatillon