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: John Berryman

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: E.L. Doctorow

I’m Homer, the blind brother. I didn't lose my sight all at once, it was like the movies, a slow fade-out.

Homer & Langley

E.L. Doctorow

"They say it's your birthday" - writers born on March 13

L. Ron Hubbard  (1911)

Robert Lanham  (1971) 
W.O. Mitchell  (1914)

Viet Thanh Nguyen  (1971)

Giorgos Seferis  (1900)
Hugh Walpole  (1884)

 

The Biblio File: images of readers, for bibliophiles

"The Reader Crowned with Flowers," Jean Baptiste Camille Corot