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Saturday, September 26, 2026

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: Garrison Keillor

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

Macanudo

First Lines: Scott Westerfield


The five small craft passed from shadow, emerging with the suddenness of coins thrown into sunlight.

The Risen Empire
Scott Westerfield

"They say it's your birthday" - writers born on September 26



T. S. Eliot  (1888) 
Mark Haddon  (1962)
Jane Smiley  (1949)