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I was locked a conference room last week looking at books coming out in the fall, so tI have a lot of catching up to do…

At the Financial Times, Andrew O’Hagan on the influence of other art forms on writers:

Writing novels is quiet work: it can reveal…

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dailyspecimen:

Engraver’s Old English is a 1901 ATF design attributed to M. F. Benton, someone named Cowan, and Joseph W. Phinney.

dailyspecimen:

Engraver’s Old English is a 1901 ATF design attributed to M. F. Benton, someone named Cowan, and Joseph W. Phinney.

karenh:

art exhibition poster designed by Hans Neuburg c. 1958
(discovered via the International Poster Annual 1958/59)

karenh:

art exhibition poster designed by Hans Neuburg c. 1958

(discovered via the International Poster Annual 1958/59)

archimaps:

Section of the light house on Fowey Rocks, Florida

archimaps:

Section of the light house on Fowey Rocks, Florida

popeyepanels:

Comic art department.
January 13, 1934 by E.C. Segar.

popeyepanels:

Comic art department.

January 13, 1934 by E.C. Segar.

Day Jobs of Poets by Grant Snider
The new comic from Grant Snider, ‘The Day Jobs of Poets’, comes with the following disclaimer:
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Day Jobs of Poets by Grant Snider

The new comic from Grant Snider, ‘The Day Jobs of Poets’, comes with the following disclaimer:

“…

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