Original 1937 jacket design for Tolkein’s The Hobbit, via Buzzfeed’s 22 Most Iconic Book Covers. We also love Catcher in the Rye.
Reader comments on image—“Modesty!!”—and another reader questions the comment—”?”
From p. 26 of Poems by Samuel Rogers by Samuel Rogers (1816). Original from the University of Michigan. Digitized March 12, 2008.
Tumblr crush of the week: The Art of Google Books
Self portrait of Charles Bukowski via The Atlantic
“Riding on my lost horse looking for it.”
The Dude and the Zen Master features a lovely drawing by author Jeff Bridges on the cover.
Slinkachu’s incredible photography on display at the Broome Street Gallery in New York through October 7th. He also created an amazing installation of hot air balloons.
His book of photography, Global Model Village, is on sale now!
"The coral blue cover stamped with a dark blue swimming cap makes clear that Swimming Studies is indeed meant to be a physical object, a piece of art. The book features some of Shapton’s watercolors. Their subtleness is strikingly appropriate. The same as a flailing splashing crawl stroke does not result in swimming fast, no matter how quickly you move your arms, Shapton knows how to make both her written and visual ideas glide, concealing the hard work necessary to create the perception of effortlessness. All that matters is the end result. Though in this case, the artwork is secondary because Swimming Studies is not about Leanne Shapton the artist, it is about Leanne Shapton the person, and while swimming, visual arts, and other people are all vital components in her existence, she has learned how to define them, rather than let them define her: swimming not as a way of life but life as a way of swimming."
— The Millions reviews Leanne Shapton’s Swimming Studies
