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At Swim-Two-Birds

2019 is the 80th anniversary of Flann O'Brien's At Swim-Two-Birds. There's a conference going on right now. This copy sold at auction for £8,125 in 2015. Source.

Stony Berlin

I wonder if Jason Lutes took some of the inspiration for his Berlin trilogy from Werner Hegemann's critique of Berlin tenement housing, Das Steinerne Berlin, which translates as Stony Berlin. Hegemann was chased out of Germany by the Nazis.

Jaime Hernandez Split Tooth Art

Jaime Hernandez did the book illustrations for Tanya Tagaq's Split Tooth.

The Joy of the Court

Constance Hieatt and Pauline Baynes did a book together: The Joy of the Court (1971), a retelling of the Erec story. There's a good website about Pauline Baynes here, but it doesn't seem to know about this book.

Azuma Karage

Detail from a 1786 ehon Azume Karage by Kitai Shigemasa. Source.

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Japanese Morning TV Covers Ishiguro's Nobel

Watch. His kindergarten teacher is at 4:04.

How to Observe Bloomsday in Halifax

Andrew Burke transforms Halifax NS into Dublin for Bloomsday.

Cover Pose

The gesture of this Roman ivory figurine stuck in my mind long lang after I forgot where I'd ever seen it. I've certainly never been to the Petit Palais in Paris, where it's housed. It was on the cover of a Penguin.

New Canadian Library Style

A few years ago there was a vogue for designing new vintage Penguin paperback covers. Here Michael DeForge has brought back the early 1970s New Canadian Library house style to promote his upcoming book launch.