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: Susan Minot

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: Franz Kafka

As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.

Metamorphosis

Franz Kafka

"They say it's your birthday" - writers born on March 27

Julia Alvarez  (1950)
Charles Mackay  (1814)
Heinrich Mann  (1871)
Henri Murger  (1822) 
John O’Farrell  (1962) 
Frank O’Hara (1926) 
Budd Schulberg  (1914)
Louis Simpson  (1923)
 

The Biblio File: images of readers, for bibliophiles