The Sketchbook Project
The Sketchbook Project is a crowd-sourced art project which sees artists turn a small 32-page grey sketchbook into a living, breathing piece of art. Each sketchbook is then catalogued and becomes part of a traveling exhibition of the handmade books, before eventually ending up in the permanent collection at Brooklyn Art Library in Williamsburg. Allowing … Read more
Maskull Lasserre – Incarnate Skull Book
Canadian born Maskull Lasserre has created ‘Incarnate’ a stunning human skull sculpture carved into books. Lasserre’s drawings and sculptures explore the unexpected potential of the everyday through allegories of value, expectation, and utility. Elements of nostalgia, accident, humour, and the macabre are incorporated into works that induce strangeness in the familiar, and provoke uncertainty in … Read more
3DD A Book Of Breasts in 3-D
3DD is a website that is dedicated to the object that most men seem to lose all reason when faced with – breasts, boobs, tits or whatever you happen to call those two lumps of flesh on a woman’s chest that make men drool and The Sun so popular. The site with 100% 3-D images, … Read more
Tea Obreht win’s Orange Prize for Fiction for debut novel “The Tiger’s Wife”
Belgrade-born author Tea Obreht was the surprise winner today of Orange Prize for Fiction with her debut novel “The Tiger’s Wife,” a mystical, magical examination of the recent conflicts in the Balkans. At 25, Obreht is the youngest author to scoop the award, which honors female writers from around the world and is now in … Read more
Leonard Cohen wins Spanish literary prize
My favourite singer of all time and part-time poet and writer of short stories, Leonard Cohen won Spain’s top award for authors who do not write in Spanish for his decades of exploring great human issues in song and verse. The jury of the Principe de Asturias Foundation said the 76-year-old singer-songwriter, poet and novelist … Read more
Lyle Owerko – The Boombox Project
Lyle Owerko is a photographer and filmmaker who has worked on a vast array of projects in his time. Most noted for his picture of the terrorist attack, Lyle’s photo was used for the cover image of Time Magazine’s September 11, 2001 issue. His current projects seek to bridge ethnic borders in a manner that … Read more
Argentine writer Ernesto Sabato dies aged 99
Argentine writer Ernesto Sabato, whose novel “The Tunnel” is hailed as an existentialist classic and who presided over a probe into the crimes committed by the nation’s military rulers, died on Saturday aged 99. “Humankind cannot live without heroes, martyrs and saints,” Sabato, an intellectual known as a tireless activist for justice and human rights, … Read more
How rock music is saving books in the US
From Keith Richards’ assertion that he really did snort his father’s ashes to Sammy Hagar’s revelation that he’s been abducted by aliens, out-there autobiographies by aging rock stars are helping to fuel the ailing book-publishing business. “There’s clearly a demand,” says Mauro DiPreta, VP of It Books, which published Hagar’s current New York Times best-seller … Read more
Jennifer Egan takes Pulitzer Prize
An experimental novel inspired by Proust and The Sopranos and featuring a chapter written entirely as a PowerPoint presentation has won the Pulitzer Prize For Fiction for. Jennifer Egan’s widely acclaimed novel A Visit From the Goon Squad beat books by Jonathan Dee and Chang-rae Lee to win the $10,000 (£6,000) award, the most prestigious … Read more
