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: Isaac Bashevis Singer

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: Barbara Hodgson

Helen woke up in the middle of the night wearing someone else's breasts. Not her own insignificant, almost nonexistent bumps, but huge pendulous, full ones.

The Sensualist

Barbara Hodgson

"They say it's your birthday" - writers born on July 10

Earl Hamner Jr.  (1923) 
Jean Kerr  (1922)
Alice Munro  (1931)

Marcel Proust  (1871)
Karen Russell  (1981)

 

The Biblio File: images of readers, for bibliophiles

"Portrait B," Howard Cook