Footnotes from the World's Greatest Bookstores
Title | Footnotes from the World's Greatest Bookstores PDF eBook |
Author | Bob Eckstein |
Publisher | Clarkson Potter |
Pages | 176 |
Release | 2016-10-04 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0553459309 |
A New York Times Bestseller From the beloved New Yorker cartoonist comes a collection of paintings and stories from some of the world’s most cherished bookstores. This collection of 75 evocative paintings and colorful anecdotes invites you into the heart and soul of every community: the local bookshop, each with its own quirks, charms, and legendary stories. The book features an incredible roster of great bookstores from across the globe and stories from writers, thinkers and artists of our time, including David Bowie, Tom Wolfe, Jonathan Lethem, Roz Chast, Deepak Chopra, Bob Odenkirk, Philip Glass, Jonathan Ames, Terry Gross, Mark Maron, Neil Gaiman, Ann Patchett, Chris Ware, Molly Crabapple, Amitav Ghosh, Alice Munro, Dave Eggers, and many more. Page by page, Eckstein perfectly captures our lifelong love affair with books, bookstores, and book-sellers that is at once heartfelt, bittersweet, and cheerfully confessional.
Everyone's a Critic
Title | Everyone's a Critic PDF eBook |
Author | Bob Eckstein |
Publisher | Princeton Architectural Press |
Pages | 144 |
Release | 2019-10-22 |
Genre | Humor |
ISBN | 9781616898533 |
We are all critics now. From social media "likes" to reviews on Yelp and Rotten Tomatoes, we're constantly asked to give our opinion and offer feedback. Everyone's a Critic is a curated collection of the best and brightest New Yorker cartoonists celebrating the art of the drawn critique, whether about restaurants, art, sports, dates, friends, or modern life. Featuring the work of thirty-six masters of the cartoon, including Roz Chast, Sam Gross, Nick Downes, Liza Donnelly, Bob Mankoff, Michael Maslin, and Mick Stevens, over half the cartoons in this book appear in print for the first time.
The Ultimate Cartoon Book of Book Cartoons
Title | The Ultimate Cartoon Book of Book Cartoons PDF eBook |
Author | Bob Eckstein |
Publisher | Princeton Architectural Press |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2019-04-02 |
Genre | Humor |
ISBN | 9781616898045 |
This exuberant collection of cartoons is an enthusiastic love letter to books and bookstores. The cartoons celebrate and critique the literary world through the work of thirty-three of the masters of cartoon art, including Sam Gross, Roz Chast, Arnie Levin, Danny Shanahan, Peter Steiner, Mick Stevens, Nick Downes, Liza Donnelly, Bob Mankoff, and Michael Maslin. Many of the cartoons have been published in the New Yorker, while others are published here for the first time.
This Is My Bookstore: 100 Postcards of Beautiful Shops Around the World (Notecards for Book Lovers, Stationery Featuring Bookshop Photograph
Title | This Is My Bookstore: 100 Postcards of Beautiful Shops Around the World (Notecards for Book Lovers, Stationery Featuring Bookshop Photograph PDF eBook |
Author | Chronicle Books (Firm) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2020-04-07 |
Genre | Booksellers and bookselling |
ISBN | 9781452177939 |
City of Saints and Madmen
Title | City of Saints and Madmen PDF eBook |
Author | Jeff VanderMeer |
Publisher | Picador |
Pages | 674 |
Release | 2022-01-11 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0374721157 |
From Jeff VanderMeer, the author of Borne and Annihilation, comes the paperback reissue of his cult classic City of Saints and Madmen. In this reinvention of the literature of the fantastic, you hold in your hands an invitation to a place unlike any you’ve ever visited—an invitation delivered by one of our most audacious and astonishing literary magicians. City of elegance and squalor. Of religious fervor and wanton lusts. And everywhere, on the walls of courtyards and churches, an incandescent fungus of mysterious and ominous origin. In Ambergris, a would-be suitor discovers that a sunlit street can become a killing ground in the blink of an eye. An artist receives an invitation to a beheading—and finds himself enchanted. And a patient in a mental institution is convinced that he’s made up a city called Ambergris, imagined its every last detail, and that he’s really from a place called Chicago . . . By turns sensuous and terrifying, filled with exotica and eroticism, this interwoven collection of stories, histories, and “eyewitness” reports invokes a universe within a puzzle box where you can lose—and find—yourself again.
Tyrannia
Title | Tyrannia PDF eBook |
Author | A. DeNiro |
Publisher | Small Beer Press |
Pages | 181 |
Release | 2013-10-28 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 161873072X |
In these 11 stories—and the weird spaces in between—people of all kinds struggle to free themselves from conventions and constraints both personal and political. Places ranging from the farthest reaches of outer space to the creepy abandoned farmhouse in the middle of nowhere become battlegrounds for change and growth—sometimes at a massive cost. Tyranny takes many forms, some more subtle than others, and it is up to the reader to travel along with the characters, who improvise and create their own renditions of freedom. Poet and fiction writer DeNiro uses language like no other. This second collection of stories explores our relationship to art, history, and looks at how everyday events, personal and political, never cease to leave us off balance.
A Beginner's Guide to Etegami
Title | A Beginner's Guide to Etegami PDF eBook |
Author | dosankodebbie |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2014-06-22 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781320050043 |
This is a step-by-step guide to creating Etegami, a Japanese postcard art that combines simple hand-painted images with handwritten words on washi postcards. The book is divided into 22 brief chapters that lead the reader through the origins, the materials, the process, and the possibilities of the art of Etegami. It includes links to online suppliers of etegami materials and tools. Please take note of the dimensions and be warned that it is a very SMALL book (60 pages), but it is packed to the gills with content.