Oct 29, 2019 BLACK TUESDAY — THE ANVIL, PROLETARIAN FICTION MAGAZINE

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“I live on a park bench.  You, Park Avenue.  Hell of a distance Between us two...

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Oct 28, 2019 Book of the Week — Moscow

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“Somewhere within their walls shall all that forwards perfect human life be started, Tried, taught, advanced, visibly exhibited. Not only all the world of works, trade, products, But all the workmen of the world here to be represented.” — “Song of the Exposition,” Walt Whitman Moscow Alexander Rodchenko (1891 - 1956) Moscow...

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Oct 14, 2019 Book of the Week — De solaribus horologiis…

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Virescit vulnere virtus (Virtue grows stronger from being wounded) Orontii finei delphinatis, regii mathematicarvm professoris, de solaribus horologiis… Oronce Fine (1494-1555) Parisiis: apud Gulielmum Cauellat, 1560 First edition QB215 F55 1560 Oronce Fine was the son of a physician who drew, in part, upon astrology for his medicine, as was the...

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Oct 07, 2019 Book of the Week — Remarks on Colour

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“A colour shines in its surroundings. (Just as eyes only smile in a face)” - Ludwig Wittgenstein Remarks on Colour Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889 - 1951) Pasadena, CA: Archetype Press, Art Center College of Design, 2000 xBF 789 C7 W513 2000 During the last few years of his life, Ludwig Wittgenstein...

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Oct 03, 2019 We Recommend — Jessica Spring: Making the Rounds, Daredevil Style

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Idaho State University Ph.D candidate, Cana Itchuaqiyaq, stands in awe of Jessica Spring's "Parts Unknown" Last week Paula Jull, bookmaker and Idaho State University Professor Emeritus in Visual Communication and Graphic Design, met up with her former student Cana Itchuaqiyaq to look at books by...

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Oct 01, 2019 Book of the Week — Arabic prayer book with Quranic verses

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"And with Him are the keys of the Invisible. None but He Knoweth them. And He Knoweth what is in the land and the sea. Not a leaf falleth but He Knoweth it, not a grain amid the darkness of the earth, naught of wet...

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Sep 27, 2019 Book of the week: Viennae avstraiae vrbis nobilissime a sultano

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An Account of the siege of the noblest Austrian city of Vienna by Sultan Suleyman, the grandest Turkish tyrant, with an immeasurable army. With courtesy and allowance of the mightiest Kaiser Carolus & his brother the illustrious King Ferdinand of Hungary and also Bohemia. Viennae avstraiae vrbis...

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Sep 26, 2019 Censorship, Underground Presses, Pacifist Literature: Rare Books Helps Illuminate an Award-Winning Master’s Thesis

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Voina (1916) // War Elegies (1944) Lyuba Basin, Rare Books Curator, has been selected to represent The University of Utah in the Western Association of Graduate Schools (WAGS)/ProQuest competition for the Distinguished Master's Thesis Award. The award recognizes scholarly achievement at the master's level, in both...

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Sep 25, 2019 Banned! — Metropol: Literary Almanac

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  Metropolʹ : literaturnyĭ alʹmanakhAkysyonov, VasilyAnn Arbor, MI: Ardis Press, 1979PG3227 M47 1979 Change was almost immediate in the Soviet Union after the death of Joseph Stalin in 1953. His passing brought on visions of Spring and what citizens of the USSR called the “thaw.” Within the...

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Sep 24, 2019 Banned! — Persian Letters

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"I here present the English Reader with the most diverting as well as instructive Book that France has produced these many Years. It is wrote with a Strength of Reasoning, a Freedom of Thought, and a Vein of just Humour, which that Nation was hardly...

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