Pocket Sketchbook

Thank you very much, dear Peter Biľak, for this excellent Typotheque 2010 calendar and sketchbook! A must for people obsessed with writing.

Peter Biľak was born in Czechoslovakia, studied in England, the USA, and France to end up in The Netherlands. Works in the field of editorial, graphic, type and web design, teaches part time at the Royal Academy in The Hague. Started Typotheque in 1999, and Dot Dot Dot in 2000. Besides fonts in Typotheque he has also designed fonts for FontShop International.

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Remembering Salinger

Dave Eggers in New Yorker on J. D. Salinger.

J. D. Salinger, Erik Ross, and a Teddy bear. Courtesy: Lillian Ross.

Lola

Barbara Sukowa: 70!:)

Photo: Cinetext

Diese Härte des Blicks in der Traurigkeit der Augen (FAZ)

Submarino

Dear friend, fiction writer Jonas T. Bengtsson from Copenhagen, has a book adaptation: Submarino marks the first appearance at the Berlinale 2010 for the acclaimed director Thomas Vinterberg (Celebration).

Submarino is  story about two estranged brothers, marked by a childhood of gloom. They were separated from each other at a young age by a tragedy that split their entire family. Today, Nick’s life is drenched in alcohol and plagued by violence, while his kid brother, a solo-parent, struggles as a junkie to give his son a better life. Their paths cross, making a confrontation inevitable, but is redemption possible?

WC in Bulgaria

I am editing the Balkan chapters of the Danube novel and in the archive I discovered this picture of Bulgaria-style navigation:

See also The dirtiest room in Brăila and The only information stand at Baba Vida

The Bookshelf of the Week

I am very proud: my bookshelf became the The Bookshelf of the Week at bibliophile website!:)

See also wonderful Neil Gaiman’s Bookshelf