Inside Winter 2011
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Feature
The Believer
More than a decade has passed since Dave Eggers launched a spunky literary magazine, Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern. Now he might be the publishing industry's savior.
Feature
A Quiet Revolution
Boston socialite and artist Sarah Wyman Whitman brought book cover design into the modern era.
GENTLY MAD
Supernova
Star-gazing with Tim Ely
DIGEST
Shakespeare's New Play: Is Falsehood a Forgery?
DIGEST
Assouline's haute couture books
DIGEST
Kurt Vonnegut's silkscreen prints
DIGEST
Paperweights charm collectors
DIGEST
John Fante's literary archive
RECORD-BREAKER
The Drudge Report
Poor Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
BOOK ART
Type to Text
Julie Chen and college-level book arts
BEYOND THE BASICS
Holes in Books
The whole story of holes
IN THE LIBRARY
The Transformation of Tennessee
Tennessee on exhibit in Texas
ON THE BLOCK
High Spots
Hesketh's high spots under the hammer
HOW I GOT STARTED
Modern Library
Modern Library collector Clauston Jenkins
Dave Eggers is the Willy Wonka of the publishing industry. The literary magazine he founded, Timothy McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, is a jawbreaker (…
In 1880 a slim volume of poetry appeared that modern book collectors have come to see as the opening salvo in a revolution that had profound and long…
Perfection is an elusive thing for collectors, especially if anything less than “no dings, no chips” is unacceptable. But with books, not everything…
Every December Steve Gargani, a pressroom manager for printing giant R. R. Donnelley, would look forward to the day a supervisor would visit…
Also In This Issue
Feature
The Believer
More than a decade has passed since Dave Eggers launched a spunky literary magazine, Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern. Now he might be the publishing industry's savior.
Feature
A Quiet Revolution
Boston socialite and artist Sarah Wyman Whitman brought book cover design into the modern era.
GENTLY MAD
Supernova
Star-gazing with Tim Ely
DIGEST
Shakespeare's New Play: Is Falsehood a Forgery?
DIGEST
Assouline's haute couture books
DIGEST
Kurt Vonnegut's silkscreen prints
DIGEST
Paperweights charm collectors
DIGEST
John Fante's literary archive
RECORD-BREAKER
The Drudge Report
Poor Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
BOOK ART
Type to Text
Julie Chen and college-level book arts
BEYOND THE BASICS
Holes in Books
The whole story of holes
IN THE LIBRARY
The Transformation of Tennessee
Tennessee on exhibit in Texas
ON THE BLOCK
High Spots
Hesketh's high spots under the hammer
HOW I GOT STARTED
Modern Library
Modern Library collector Clauston Jenkins
