Last week I was a judge at the Annual Edible Book Festival. Here are a few photos of some of my favorites!
-Patrick F
Our seriously awesome friends from Pittsburgh food blog eatPGH are currently on their way to Austin, TX to present at this year’s SXSW Interactive Conference!
These four young ladies will be giving a presentation called Eat. Blog. Publish: Internet to Paper Hit, focusing on building an audience from the ground up through social media, and becoming a trusted source of information for a community.
While harnessing the power of the Interner is key, Sarah, Mandy, Julia and Laura will wax on the importance of good ol’ fashioned networking. Yes, folks: talking to people.
Peep the details:
Eat. Blog. Publish: Internet to Paper Hit
Sunday, March 10, 2013
12:30 to 1:30 p.m.
Courtyard Marriott
Rio Grande Ballroom
300 E. 4th St.
The girls will also be talking about the local food in Austin on a live broadcast on Sunday at 5 p.m. EST with Crystal Esquival, author of Food Lovers’ Guide to Austin: Best Local Specialties, Markets, Recipes, Restaurants & Events. More info on that here.
After their TV broadcast, catch the girls signing books at the Austin Convention Center in the foyer of Ballroom D from 6 to 6:20 p.m.
If you’re in the area or attending the festival, make sure you check our friends out!
- PS
Banned Book Week!
So it’s Banned Book Week this week! Everyone get out and read something! Especially if it is a book that has been challenged or banned!
According to the ALA’s (American Library Association) Office for Intellectual Freedom they record hundreds of attempts to ban, remove or challenge books from schools and library shelves. I wonder if they’ve tried to ban them from Nook’s, Kindles and the iPads? Apple watch your back.
Below is a list of a top 100 challenged books from 2000-2009
[crossed out ones = read]
I’ve got some catching up to do!
-Tim
1. Harry Potter (series), by J.K. Rowling
2. Alice series, by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
3. The Chocolate War, by Robert Cormier
4. And Tango Makes Three, by Justin Richardson/Peter Parnell5. Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck
6. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou7. Scary Stories (series), by Alvin Schwartz
8. His Dark Materials (series), by Philip Pullman
9. ttyl; ttfn; l8r g8r (series), by Lauren Myracle
10. The Perks of Being a Wallflower, by Stephen Chbosky
11. Fallen Angels, by Walter Dean Myers
12. It’s Perfectly Normal, by Robie Harris
13. Captain Underpants (series), by Dav Pilkey14. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain
15. The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison
16. Forever, by Judy Blume
17. The Color Purple, by Alice Walker
18. Go Ask Alice, by Anonymous19. Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger
20. King and King, by Linda de Haan21. To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
22. Gossip Girl (series), by Cecily von Ziegesar23. The Giver, by Lois Lowry
24. In the Night Kitchen, by Maurice Sendak
25. Killing Mr. Griffen, by Lois Duncan
26. Beloved, by Toni Morrison
27. My Brother Sam Is Dead, by James Lincoln Collier
28. Bridge To Terabithia, by Katherine Paterson
29. The Face on the Milk Carton, by Caroline B. Cooney
30. We All Fall Down, by Robert Cormier
31. What My Mother Doesn’t Know, by Sonya Sones
32. Bless Me, Ultima, by Rudolfo Anaya
33. Snow Falling on Cedars, by David Guterson
34. The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big, Round Things, by Carolyn Mackler
35. Angus, Thongs, and Full Frontal Snogging, by Louise Rennison
36. Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
37. It’s So Amazing, by Robie Harris
38. Arming America, by Michael Bellasiles
39. Kaffir Boy, by Mark Mathabane
40. Life is Funny, by E.R. Frank
41. Whale Talk, by Chris Crutcher
42. The Fighting Ground, by Avi
43. Blubber, by Judy Blume
44. Athletic Shorts, by Chris Crutcher
45. Crazy Lady, by Jane Leslie Conly46. Slaughterhouse-Five, by Kurt Vonnegut
47. The Adventures of Super Diaper Baby: The First Graphic Novel by George Beard and Harold Hutchins, the creators of Captain Underpants, by Dav Pilkey
48. Rainbow Boys, by Alex Sanchez
49. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, by Ken Kesey
50. The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini
51. Daughters of Eve, by Lois Duncan
52. The Great Gilly Hopkins, by Katherine Paterson
53. You Hear Me?, by Betsy Franco
54. The Facts Speak for Themselves, by Brock Cole
55. Summer of My German Soldier, by Bette Green
56. When Dad Killed Mom, by Julius Lester
57. Blood and Chocolate, by Annette Curtis Klause
58. Fat Kid Rules the World, by K.L. Going
59. Olive’s Ocean, by Kevin Henkes
60. Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson
61. Draw Me A Star, by Eric Carle
62. The Stupids (series), by Harry Allard
63. The Terrorist, by Caroline B. Cooney
64. Mick Harte Was Here, by Barbara Park
65. The Things They Carried, by Tim O’Brien
66. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, by Mildred Taylor
67. A Time to Kill, by John Grisham
68. Always Running, by Luis Rodriguez69. Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury
70. Harris and Me, by Gary Paulsen
71. Junie B. Jones (series), by Barbara Park
72. Song of Solomon, by Toni Morrison
73. What’s Happening to My Body Book, by Lynda Madaras
74. The Lovely Bones, by Alice Sebold
75. Anastasia (series), by Lois Lowry
76. A Prayer for Owen Meany, by John Irving
77. Crazy: A Novel, by Benjamin Lebert
78. The Joy of Gay Sex, by Dr. Charles Silverstein
79. The Upstairs Room, by Johanna Reiss
80. A Day No Pigs Would Die, by Robert Newton Peck
81. Black Boy, by Richard Wright
82. Deal With It!, by Esther Drill
83. Detour for Emmy, by Marilyn Reynolds
84. So Far From the Bamboo Grove, by Yoko Watkins
85. Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes, by Chris Crutcher
86. Cut, by Patricia McCormick
87. Tiger Eyes, by Judy Blume
88. The Handmaid’s Tale, by Margaret Atwood
89. Friday Night Lights, by H.G. Bissenger90. A Wrinkle in Time, by Madeline L’Engle
91. Julie of the Wolves, by Jean Craighead George
92. The Boy Who Lost His Face, by Louis Sachar
93. Bumps in the Night, by Harry Allard
94. Goosebumps (series), by R.L. Stine
95. Shade’s Children, by Garth Nix
96. Grendel, by John Gardner
97. The House of the Spirits, by Isabel Allende
98. I Saw Esau, by Iona Opte
99. Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret, by Judy Blume
100. America: A Novel, by E.R. Frank
- Tim
Just one of the 12,000 astounding exhibits of the London 2012 Festival, the aMAZEme installation by Brazilian artists Marcos Saboya and Gualter Pupo has had little trouble standing out. Constructed with over 250,000 books, the installation takes the shape of a fingerprint from Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges, a famous lover of literary labyrinthes. aMAZEme is on display at the Southbank Centre Clore Ballroom of London until August 26, while the London 2012 Festival continues through September 9.
- Maggie
I get that the heating bills would be cray cray. But why hasn’t someone done this in Buffalo? Who will do this in Buffalo? WON’T SOMEONE PLEASE DO THIS IN BUFFALO!
That is all.
-Ben
Nick Hornby writes a column in The Believer magazine called Stuff I’ve Been Reading. It’s about stuff he’s been reading. He reads a lot. It’s impressive.
This is my column, of sorts, called Stuff I’d Like To Be Reading. It’s about stuff I’d like to be reading.
It’s a photo column, comprised only of pics taken in bookstores of books I want to buy or research. I take them on my iPhone, and as you can tell, take no time for styling or polishing. You’ll see headphone cords, my hand and phone’s shadow, even my feet.
Research for this column often takes place at either Nicholas Hoare, in Toronto’s St. Lawrence Market district; Talking Leaves, right here on Elmwood; or if I’m lucky, STRAND, in heaven Manhattan’s Union Square. In my dreams, I’m escorted out of STRAND for having taken too many snapshots. I tell them I’m just a loyal and avid customer, but they don’t buy it. I scream, “You don’t understand! I’m one of you!” as they drag me off. I sneak in with disguise, and then they arrest me.
It’s a serious love, me and STRAND.
Anyway.
I now present the debut of Stuff I’d Like To Be Reading.
-Ben
Normally I’d advocate reading the books. But carving them up is clever, too.
-Ben
If I didn’t already have plans for my vacation next month, this would be my plans. How many books do I have that I need to read, is another thought. (Tons is the answer.)
-Ben
Books swell and burst from Alicia Martin’s Biografias, a Madrid art installation composed of approximately 5,000 books. Fixed to mesh tubing, waterfalls of books spill into the street and assume an imposing and expressive form. As pages shuffle and flip in the wind, Martin’s books seem to bring to life the energy hidden between their bindings. In an era of electronics and clipped communication, Biografias serves as a delightful and humbling meditation on the book as an object and the power of a narrative conveyed.
- Maggie
Brooklyn-based HarperCollins designer Adam Johnson puts a fresh, poppy twist on a few short story classics.
- Maggie
Our good friend Alix Martin showed me this video the other day and I can’t stop thinking about how far the design of iPad apps have come in such a short period of time. I can only imagine what the iPad will look like when my daughter is my age and what its capabilities will be.
-Steve
This gorgeous video was put together by Sean Ohlenkamp and his wife Lisa at Type Books in Toronto. Taken from the youtube page itself:
“After organizing our bookshelf almost a year ago (http://youtu.be/zhRT-PM7vpA), my wife and I (Sean Ohlenkamp) decided to take it to the next level. We spent many sleepless nights moving, stacking, and animating books at Type bookstore in Toronto (883 Queen Street West, (416) 366-8973).” -Sean Ohlenkamp
-Steve
BLAARGH!
Court and I went to the Small Press Book Fair this weekend and had an amazing time. We saw lots of birds on things. We saw lots of hipster attire. We saw lots of amazing talent. We even saw old Mark Twain manuscripts. You have to get there next year if you’ve never been. Have to.
-Ben
