Famed author and bookstore proprietor Larry McMurtry will be downsizing his store “Booked Up” in Archer, Texas, early August by shedding over 350,000 books by auction. A good article on this massive auction can be found on the Fine Books & Collections website. And I thought the 40,000+ books we sold off when closing down [...]
Interesting, and rather eye-catching, sculptures by artist Alicia Martin. Somehow I feel this scene could just have easily been pulled from my wife’s dreams…
Here are a few bookish events to add to your calendar for the upcoming year: Mini-Mammoth used book sale The Friends of the Ottawa Public Library hold a sale one Saturday every month of the school year to replace the annual Mammoth Used Book Sale, so keep an eye on their website for upcoming dates. [...]
The Canadian Bookbinders and Book Artists Guild (CBBAG) is thrilled to announce it is in the planning stages of Art of the Book 2013, a juried exhibition of members’ work. Submissions are welcomed from the traditional to cutting edge design. The categories will be: Fine Binding; Papermaking; Paper Decorating; Calligraphy; Box Making; Fine Printing; and [...]
A great little website, I Love Typography, that’s was kindly forwarded by a member of the Ottawa Press Gang. Lots of great articles and videos to be had for the typophile in all of us. Here is a great video called The Final Push on Linotype from the site: http://ilovetypography.com/2011/08/23/linotype-the-film-%E2%80%94-final-push/
We recently received a package in the mail from the Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) detailing the campaign and efforts they have undertaken in an attempt to stem the tide of cutbacks, service discontinuation, and acquisition moratoriums that has assailed Library and Archives Canada (LAC) under their new mandate and restructuring policies. Efforts to [...]
A friend of mine brought to my attention the Frankenstein Horror Series, published in the early 1970′s by Popular Library, last week and it has been a really interesting little series to read about. This post from the Groovy Age of Horror website is by far the best review of the series and has great [...]
Here is the info for a couple of upcoming book launches from local mystery authors: Peggy Blair’s The Beggar’s Opera Thursday, 16 February, 6:00 pm – 8:30 pm The Orange Art Gallery, 233 Armstrong Street, Ottawa, Ontario There will be live Cuban music with the terrific Cuban duet of Caridad Cruz and César Ricardo. Cuban [...]
While many of the items on the struck a close cord with many of my observations when we had the open store, unfortunately I can’t lay claim to this humorously honest list of 25 Things Learned From Opening a Bookstore. I can however confirm that while I’ve encountered pretty much everything on the list, numbers [...]
Saturday, January 28, 11:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m at various libraries throughout Ottawa The concept An individual accepts to take part in the event as a Book Book reservations for specific time slots will be available the day of the event, at each site Books get “checked out” for 20 minutes by a Reader Talk [...]