Archive of posts tagged Books

2nd Floor Book Club: “Simple Times: Crafts for Poor People” by Amy Sedaris

The Sedaris family make me proud to be from North Carolina. Speaking of which, I was there last week and picked up a copy of Amy Sedaris’s new book Simple Times. Its a book dedicated to “crafts for poor people.” In short, it is AMAZING. The book features some horrendous craft projects and some hilarious [...]



Advice from the book arranger to the rich and famous

In December I wrote a post about attempting to rearrange my bookcase. A day after that post, I learned that Madeline Donahue of the screen printing duo FakeDog is a professional book arranger! She works for a large book store in Manhattan and is hired to put together private libraries for people who can…well, afford [...]



Shopping Highlight: Penguin Postcards

Just posted on Amazon for pre-ordering is a set of 100 postcards depicting classic Penguin book covers. Penguin is known for having some great book designs especially in decades past. There is even a book dedicated to the designers behind some of these classic covers called Penguin By Design. I think these postcards are going [...]