Amazon has 60 books in 10 categories up for a vote for “Best Book Covers of 2009.” There’s plenty of literary eye candy in the mix.
Best Book Covers of 2009
Digital Collections
The New York Public Library released more than 180,000 of its public-domain items, ranging from maps and manuscripts to ancient texts and sheet music. The files can be downloaded on the library’s website, available to the public without restriction.
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"This year, Free Comic Book Day turns sixteen years old. The good news: It can drive itself to swim practice now!" NPR's Monkey See blog provides an irreverent and useful guide to Free Comic Book Day, which is tomorrow, May 6th. "When you read a comic, you are accepting a direct message from one singular honest soul," Paul Morton wrote in our own pages a few years back.
Pink Matter
No doubt inspired by the musical stylings of Ricky Rozay (aka Rick Ross), Peter Foges set out to investigate the origins and present state of pink champagne.
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John Ashbery Poem Spans Bridge in Minneapolis
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Fifty Shades of Scandal
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Anybody else think the cover of “Fat of the Land” looks way too similar to the 1997 Prodigy album cover (http://www.mortesubita.org/sinfonias/artigos/The%20Fat%20of%20The%20Land.jpg)?