August 2009
11 posts
An Exhaustive Guide to Victorian Literature →
Years in the making, John Sutherland has published an exhaustive guide to Victorian Literature, including summaries novels, magazines and writers’ lives.  Amazing! (Via)
Aug 21st
Best of BibliOdyssey →
Fantastic book art. (Via)
Aug 21st
Google to Digitize the Bibliothèque Nationale →
Aug 19th
The Death of the (Reclusive) Author →
(via)
Aug 17th
Great Looking Book Designs From Penguin →
(via BoingBoing)
Aug 12th
Book Trailers →
You know movie trailers? Well here is a link to a book trailer for the new Thomas Pynchon book Inherent Vice. “Wave of the future”? Could be!
Aug 12th
Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English... →
Kind of old news at this point, but this is such a cool resource. I hope they will add it to the OED website, if they haven’t already.
Aug 11th
The Book Stalker →
Stalking suffers in the Age Of the Kindle. “See, I don’t really trust you until we talk a little shit and then I see your bookshelf.” (via Coudal Partners Blend)
Aug 11th
Dust Jackets That Got Away →
An interesting look into the world of book jacket design. “Every book jacket designer has at least one that got away—a fresh, inventive cover that was shot down en route to the bookstore shelf. These “lost” covers form a parallel universe in which the books we read and love exist in entirely different skins.” (Via Coudal Partners Blend)
Aug 11th
Cool book art →
Aug 10th
Great article on editing an academic economics... →
A pretty eye-opening glimpse into the world of academic publishing. (via)
Aug 5th