Sweat and Inspiration
It's been months since I've written much besides Facebook comments. Usually, I've at least got a couple of fan stories on the boil, or some poetry, but right now—nada. I've been so busy working with...
View ArticleNew Year, New Schedule, New Paper Exhibit
So, here we are a month into the new year and I'm just now getting caught up. First it was getting ready to go to China, then it was being in China, then it was being back from China and getting caught...
View ArticleLove Through a Looking Glass
So remember Bronx Voices? That little show I was in before I went off to China? Well, my co-producer D.L. Anderson is at it again and currently doing a show called "Love Through a Looking Glas," which...
View ArticleGlyphs and Ampersands and Rubrics! Oh My!
One of the things that often gets sacrificed to the beautiful regularity of type is the quirky individuality of handwriting, with its swashes, ligatures, and shorthand. Early medieval books copied in...
View ArticleResolved:
So, no big retrospective this year. It's been kind of a blah year, without any real earth-shaking changes and a lot of work. I did reconnect with some folks, which was excellent, and got to see some...
View ArticlePresecriptive vs. Descriptive
"A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used."...
View ArticleJapanese Paper Craft
Haven't posted here in a while because I've been busy writing and teaching, but I'd like to get back to posting on a semi-regular basis, even if it's only little stuff. I've been hanging out on...
View ArticleMystery Gifts for Libraries
Somewhere in Scotland, somebody is making elaborate book sculptures and leaving them in libraries as gifts of appreciation and "in support of libraries, books, words, ideas." So far, they've appeared...
View ArticleBe Subversive! Read a Banned Book!
It's Banned Books Week (Sept. 24th-Oct. 1st), again, and it's hard to believe that in a country based on free speech, we should even have such a thing. But we do. And this is why librarians have...
View ArticleWhen A Book Could Outrage
At 2,700 pages and almost 14 pounds, Webster’s Third was a literally weighty work, the product of over 700 editor-years of effort, the publisher boasted. But it was widely denounced for what critics...
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