The Biblio File: images of bookplates, for bibliophiles

Antoni Gelabert

David Levine on writers: J.M. Coetzee

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: Howard Jacobson

He should have seen it coming. His life had been one mishap after another. So he should have been prepared for this one.

The Finkler Question

Howard Jacobson

"They say it's your birthday" - writers born on May 23

Margaret Wise Brown  (1910)

Ursula Hegi  (1946)

Thomas Hood  (1799)

Jane Kenyon  (1947)

Par Lagerkvist  (1891)
Scott O'Dell  (1898)

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