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: Herman Melville

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: Audrey Niffenegger

Espeth died while Robert was standing in front of a vending machine watching tea shoot into a small plastic cup.

Her Fearful Symmetry

Audrey Niffenegger

"They say it's your birthday" - writers born on May 29

Max Brand  (1892)
G. K. Chesterton  (1874)
Andrew Clements  (1949)

The Biblio File: images of readers, for bibliophiles

"A Soldier Reading," Jose Jimenez y Aranda